ROME—A propeller-driven aircraft flown as part of
Italy's polar research program is believed to have crashed in a remote and mountainous part of
Antarctica while en route from the
South Pole to a research station some 1500 kilometers away on the continent's coast. According to the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, which manages the logistics of Italy's Antarctic research program, the plane was carrying two pilots and a mechanic, all three of them Canadians. Their fate is unknown. No scientists were on board.
