• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    There’s a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.

    Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.