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Comment by ThePowerOfFuet

6 months ago

>This is one of the more remote flights humanity operates. What even are the diversion points on this route, McMurdo airfield?

The acronym ETOPS is sometimes jokingly expanded to Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim... but, in this case, it is perhaps closer to reality than usual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

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kylehotchkiss  6 months ago

In this case the water's probably cold enough nobody would need to swim for long.

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