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The wreckage has been blown on its side in the intervening years, and it is a bit snow-covered. Here's an oblique view from late in the 2002-03 season from another friend Seth White. This aerial shot was taken in February 2001 by science tech friend Glenn Grant, who's Neider, wearing a USARP wool shirt, is in the left seat. The view from the back, over the pilot's shoulder.
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Neider's description of the events is quite detailed, but a large grain of salt must be taken. As they say, if you want the rest of the story, read the book, sort of. The flight and crash scene photos seen here were provided by friend Stuart Rawlinson, who was the GFA accompanying Neider (Stu would later winter at Pole in 1975 as part of the first civilian crew wintering at the new domed station). Survival packs were dropped, and several hours later (0245) two USCG aircraft returned to the crash site, landed, and picked up the four men. Eventually the search turned to the mountain side, and at midnight one of the Coast Guard helo's spotted the crash site, tent and red flares. Helos and an LC-130 went looking.at first along the presumed coastal route. The crash occurred about 1430.the brief Mayday call before the crash was not heard in McM, but an emergency call 20 minutes later was heard, this prompted an immediate SAR effort. The group spent some time in that tent, slowly becoming cold and lamenting the lack of matches, until suddenly the two Coast Guard crew members whipped out their lighters and lit cigarettes. Still, there was Neider's camping gear, food and tent. It seems that the USCG survival bags had been removed from the aircraft while it had been used for local McMurdo shuttle flights.and there were no USARP orange survival bags aboard either for some reason. No one was injured, but the weather was closing in and there was a shortage of survival gear. Suddenly it was in a downdraft on the northwest side of the mountain the engine could not pull up, and the helicopter crash-landed. He climbed to 12,500 feet, perhaps trying to fly above the crater, but the craft was too heavily loaded. Surprisingly, the pilot took an inland route, hugging the slopes of Erebus. Neider had arranged with the Chalet for a GFA from the Field Party Processing Center (FPPC renamed the BFC later that season in memory of geologist Tom Berg, who had been killed in a field helo crash the previous season) to come along on turnaround to help carry gear and set up the camp. Instead, a ride was arranged on one of the Coast Guard helo's from the Staten Island (the HH-52A helicopter #CG1404) since these aircraft were equipped with flotation they were allowed to fly over open water unlike the Navy's aircraft. The original plan was for him to be transported there by a VXE-6 H-34 helicopter, but at the last minute this ride was cancelled because there was too much cloud cover along the planned coastal route. While in Mactown in January 1971, he wangled a visit to Cape Bird (his second, actually) during which he planned to camp adjacent to some Kiwi penguin researchers and write about the experience. Briefly, here's the story: Charles Neider was in Antarctica on an NSF artists/writers grant, whatever they called them in those days, to gather material for what would eventually be his book Edge of the World, Ross Island, Antarctica.