{"id":396555,"date":"2026-04-25T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396555\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:18:08","slug":"royal-new-zealand-air-force-completes-medical-evacuation-from-antarctica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396555\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal New Zealand Air Force completes medical evacuation from Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this time of the year there are very narrow windows of favourable weather conditions, so the crew threaded the needle between weather systems and dwindling daylight to land at Phoenix Airfield on the Ross Ice Shelf, near McMurdo Station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">It said the crew landed at the last sunrise about midday, and took off in twilight after the final sunset just after 2pm. The next sunrise at McMurdo Station and Scott Base is set to be on August 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">In a post on X, the US Embassy to New Zealand said the \u201chigh-stakes\u201d evacuation from McMurdo Station brought home a patient working with the US Antarctic Programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">US Charge d\u2019Affaires David Gehrenbeck expressed gratitude to New Zealand for its investment in \u201cdefence capabilities and exceptionally-skilled crews\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese missions are never routine \u2013 they demand precision, courage, and world-class capability every single time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is what close partnership looks like in action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt this time of the year there are very narrow windows of favourable weather conditions, so the crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,21453,111654,1549,5760,71,3523,117,111,43,139,69,9855,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-396555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-air","9":"tag-antarctica","10":"tag-completes","11":"tag-evacuation","12":"tag-force","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-medical","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-royal","21":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}