21 April 1982
Fortuna Glacier Flight
Pilots HMS Antrim's Wessex during the difficult special-forces operation on Fortuna Glacier.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Fortuna Glacier in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Pilots HMS Antrim's Wessex during the difficult special-forces operation on Fortuna Glacier.
Serves as observer in HMS Antrim's Wessex helicopter during the hazardous insertion of SAS troops onto Fortuna Glacier.
The first landings of SAS troops took place, the weather is so bad that their landings and others made the next day are all withdrawn after several helicopters crash into the Fortuna glacier
SAS landings on Fortuna Glacier are abandoned in bad weather.
Pilots the overloaded Wessex that rescues SAS troops and helicopter crews from severe weather on the glacier.
Helps navigate the Wessex during the rescue of SAS personnel and crews from two helicopters lost on Fortuna Glacier.
Serves in the Wessex crew during the rescue of SAS soldiers and stranded helicopter personnel from Fortuna Glacier.
Provenance
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