Cape Town to Antarctica by Private A340

Video Description

Today we’re flying a private A340 from Cape Town to Antarctica! Wolf’s Fang Runway, to be exact [WFR/AT98 – coordinates 71º 32' 00” S 8º 50' 00” E]. It’s the only privately operated ice runway in Antarctica and it’s actually built on top of glacial ice, so the whole process of landing an A340-300 there is fascinating. As are all the logistics around this flight, run by White Desert, a luxury travel company specializing in trips to the 7th continent based out of Cape Town. It’s an incredible day of flying as we leave Africa behind and fly south for 5.5 hours before seeing the incredible ice of Antarctica. Check out White Desert and more about what the offer here: https://white-desert.com The aircraft in question is 9H-TQY, operated by Hi Fly Malta and Captained by the famous Carlos Mirpuri, who is also Vice Chairman of the Hi Fly Group. We get a lot of time to admire the aircraft and to speak to Carlos about the operation. We’ll show you the ground experience at Cape Town, the aircraft interior (ex-Emirates, and it shows), the White Desert service, and much more. And we have the landing from multiple angles. We’ll be publishing a series from Gabe Leigh about his weeklong trip to Antarctica, including more flights internally, so stay tuned. Grateful for the use of supporting footage from the legendary Panda Beting, who was onboard the flight, and from Andrew MacDonald with White Desert, who captured our landing from the ground. Check out the playback of our flight 3L801 from Cape Town to Wolf’s Fang:. https://fr24.com/data/flights/3l801#382c81e6 Follow Gabe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabeleigh/ White Desert on Youtube: @white.desert.antarctica White Desert on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/white.desert.antarctica/ Panda Beting on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pandabeting/?hl=en Follow Flightradar24 on Instagram - http://instagram.com/flightradar24 Find us on Facebook - https://facebook.com/flightradar24 Twitter - https://twitter.com/flightradar24 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/2740521 SECTIONS: 00:00 Intro 02:03 Boarding the A340 04:40 Departure from Cape Town 05:41 Last sight of Africa 06:19 White Desert inflight experience 07:52 Flight deck chat with Captain Mirpuri 12:53 First sight of the ice 15:00 Descent and landing in Antarctica 16:42 Welcome to Antarctica 20:15 What's coming next ------------------------------------------- Useful flight tracking links: ✈️ Track live flights here - https://www.flightradar24.com 🎧 Listen to our podcast here - https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-podcast 🛩️ Find out more about subscriptions here - https://www.flightradar24.com/premium 📕 Read our flight tracking glossary here - https://www.flightradar24.com/glossary 📧 Sign up to our Aviation newsletter - https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/on-the-radar-newsletter/ #antarctica #a340 #whitedesert