Breaking News - 100-mph winds halt search for Antarctica plane

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A plane carrying three Canadians has gone missing in Antarctica. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC NewsHowling winds and snow grounded an effort Thursday to find a small plane missing in a mountainous area of Antarctica for more than two days, rescuers said.

The twin-engine plane, carrying three Canadian crew members, was about an hour into a flight from the U.S.-run Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to an Italian research station at Terra Nova Bay, when its emergency beacon was heard by rescue officials in New Zealand at about 4 a.m. ET Tuesday.

The company that owns the plane, Kenn Borek Air Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, said it was “maintaining a respectful silence” until the fate of the plane and its crew was known.

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