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Whiskey bottles are 100 years in Antarctica

WELLINGTON (AP) – A group of restorers found a whiskey that happened 100 years in the rocks.
Five cases of whiskey and two of brandy were recovered by the team that restored a cottage Antarctic that was used over 100 years ago by the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

The ice made that will break some of the bottles that had been abandoned there in 1909 when the expedition had to leave, but the restaurant said Friday they are confident that the boxes contain some intact bottles “can be heard as a liquid when moved .

The group thought there were only two boxes and were surprised to find five, said the team leader of the Heritage Fund of New Zealand Antarctica Al Fasti.

The current owners of the distillery that made the bottles of whiskey, Whyte & Mackay group began a campaign to try to retrieve the bottles of drink to test them to decide whether to release this mix again especially since the recipe is lost .

Fasti said that restorers found the boxes with the bottles under the wooden floor of the cabin in 2006, but were too buried in the ice to recover.

New Zealanders accepted through the ice to retrieve a few bottles while the rest must remain under the rules of conservation of Antarctic treaty.

Richard Paterson, specialist in Whyte and Mackay mixtures, whose company supplied the whiskey Mackinlay for Shackleton’s expedition, described the discovery as “a godsend for whiskey lovers.

“If the contents can be extracted and analyzed to confirm and secure the original mixture could be replicated. Since the original recipe does not exist this is a way to open a door to history,” he said in a statement.

Pilot dies in flight, but well plane lands in U.S.

NEWARK, New Jersey, USA (AP) – The pilot of a Continental Airlines plane that left Newark to Brussels on Thursday, died in mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean, but the aircraft with 247 passengers aboard landed smoothly under the command of two passengers.

Passengers aboard Flight 61 were not informed of the death of the pilot and surcharges will continue to serve snacks, but the crew requested assistance from a doctor on board. Several passengers approached the cockpit, including a doctor who told The Associated Press that the pilot appeared to have suffered a heart attack.

It is believed that the pilot of 60 years of age and 32 years of service with the airline, died of natural causes, reported Crip Kelly, spokesman for the airline based in Houston.

A pilot was on board for support during the flight and took the place of deceased colleague, said Crip. The Boeing 777 landed on time shortly before noon at the Newark Liberty International Airport.

“The flight continued in safety, with two pilots in command,” Crip said in a statement.

The doctor Struyven Julien, 72, a cardiologist and radiologist from Brussels who was traveling on the flight, responded to the request for help, went to the cabin crew and the pilot considered.

“We no longer alive,” said Struyven. There was “no chance at all” to save him, he added.

Struyven said to believe that the pilot had a heart attack. He said he used a defibrillator to try to revive the driver, but it was too late.

Martha Love, a passenger from Greenwich, New Jersey, who was sitting in the front row of the plane, said he was never told the passengers what was happening exactly.

“Nobody knew,” he said. He said he was concerned that after the plane landed and saw several vehicles and fire emergency equipment to the aircraft along the runway.

In 2007, another pilot died Continental versus controls of an airplane after feeling unwell during a flight from Houston to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The aircraft landed without problems with a pilot in command after the plane was diverted to McAllen, in southern Texas