20 hours, six pilots and an ice runway: On board a record-breaking flight from Antarctica to Norway Karin Jansdotter, who had been working in Antarctica for 469 days, was among the 20 passengers on the long flight home 4 March 2021 • 9:00am Icelandair's Boeing 767 was the biggest commercial plane ever to land in Antarctica Credit: Norwegian Polar Institute "Seeing something that huge landing on the ice runway was quite majestic and unreal," says chef Karin Jansdotter. "A big snowy cloud swirled up after the wheels hit the ice and I thought to myself, 'that thing there is finally bringing me home.'" The 35-year-old Swede is one of 20 people who took the flight from Antarctica to Oslo, Norway, on February 26 after they finished their contracts at Troll, the Norwegian Antarctic research base.