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| Betty stranded at Bluei East 2 |
The next day (Friday) we had
to face a very challenging and slightly frightening crossing to Greenland as
the weather was bad and we were stuck in low cloud, tried to climb to get out
of the cloud but then the aeroplane started to freeze and the front windscreen
was totally iced up!!
After 2 hours though finally land in sight and we had a
great landing in Kulusuk.
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| Betty deep stuck in the sandy runway |
And then came the most amazing
story of our lives and this trip and world's history so far: We dared to fly
into Bluei east 2! - which is an abandoned American airbase from Second World War!!
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| derelict American army trucks and the Beech in the background |
No civil aircraft has landed there since 1947 when the Americans suddenly
stopped using this base on this remote
island/fjord and left everything including trucks and thousands of oil barrels
behind (creating an environmental disaster that is just being discussed between
the Danish and the Greenlandic government).
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| spooky atmosphere! Quite like 'Fitzcaraldo' by Werner Herzog! |
As Betty touched down on the
soft ground, John made a solemn face: Betty looked quite stuck!! Her tyres
deeply in that soft ground!! If we couldn't get her out of here, then that
would have been her final resting place forever probably!!
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| Betty and us praying to get out of here! |
It was an hour of huge worries
for us... but John, the bush pilot from South Africa managed with a special
technique to lift her off the runway and we rose like in the film the 'flight
of the Phoenix!' What a relief!!!
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