The Chilean Air Force's base is the country's largest in Antarctica, and includes a village, hospital, school, bank, post office and chapel.
"Mario was trapped 700 metres underground with 32 other miners. No sun, no fresh air, no escape," @ericavella speaks with one of the men who spent 69 days trapped in a Chilean mine in 2010. Listen to #WhateverHappenedTo :
The Scots who stopped air strikes by a violent Chilean dictator:
The year 2020 is the #hottest in Antarctic Peninsula in the past 3 decades. Between January and August, temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius (35.6 and 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on the peninsula: researchers at the Chilean Air Force's Frei Base on King George Island
Health workers move a COVID-19 infected patient to a C-130 Hercules, to be taken to the city of Concepcion, at a Chilean Air Force base in Santiago, Chile. @mbernetti #AFP
Chilean air force chief says cause of Antarctic plane crash may never be known
Chilean air force chief says cause of Antarctic plane crash may never be known
Chilean air force chief says cause of Antarctic plane crash may never be known
Chilean air force chief says cause of Antarctic plane crash may never be known
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A military plane with 38 on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chilean air force says in a statement
In 1974 a group of men refused to repair a Chilean Air Force jet engine. 40 years after their peaceful act of solidarity, the workers discover the incredible impact of their action. #NaePasaran , Sunday at 10.30pm on the new BBC Scotland channel
A cargo plane bound for Antarctica on a maintenance mission at a Chilean base went missing on Monday evening, the Chilean Air Force said
MISSING PLANE - Chilean Air Force - C-130 Hercules aircraft - Flight from Chile to Antarctica - Disappeared over Drake Passage - 38 people on board - Search underway
A Chilean Air Force plane bound for Antarctica has gone missing with 38 people on board. Officials are conducting search-and-rescue operations in hopes of finding survivors.
All 38 people on board a Chilean Air Force plane that went missing on its way to Antarctica are presumed dead, Defense Minister Alberto Espina says
A Chilean Air Force C130 Hercules is missing between Chile and Antarctica. An Avro RJ100 from Aerovias DAP has been spotted flying near the area where radar contact was lost with the C130
In 1974 a group of factory workers refused to repair a Chilean Air Force jet engine. Nae Pasaran tells their incredible story. Watch#NaePasaran tonight at 9pm on BBC Scotland and :
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