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A tiny bit misleading really: it's only the "first" and "groundbreaking" to Troll airfield, not Antarctica as a whole.

An A340 which is longer, wider and heavier than the 787-9 has been flying down for at least two years now, but to a different airstrip.

The A340 can carry more passengers than the 787-9, and ironically the 787-9 in two-class configuration can only actually seat 290 people.

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You don’t want planes breaking ground in Antarctica.

This would generally be very bad news.

what do you mean?

Most of Antarctica covered by thick ice. To break ground one had to go through ice first.

I mean another day, another terrible news headline. The metaphor is exactly the opposite of what you want to happen with a lane on a glacier or on permafrost.

That’s the issue with only reading the title (a bad one admittedly). It’s stated clearly by the airline in the article:

"A historic moment for Norse," the airline said. "The first ever B787 Dreamliner to land in Antarctica!

Many kinds of aircraft have landed in Antartica, the largest of them being C5 Galaxy:

https://nara.getarchive.net/amp/media/a-c-5b-galaxy-aircraft...

“A tiny bit misleading”

This is Sky News’ bread and butter.

Don't forget: it's also their Nutella and Marmite.

"ironically"? What am I missing?

It’s like rain on your wedding day.

Or like too much air in a balloon.

It is a first as in the first 787 has landed in antarctica. What is not clear about this?

It's not clear in the same way as if the title had been: "pilot idbehold lands plane carrying 300 passengers in Antarctica in world first"

People are assuming the "world first" to apply to everything after "pilot idbehold", not exclusively to it.

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