Overview

• Guo returned to Punta Arenas on September 6 aboard a Chilean Navy ship after roughly two months at the Antarctic airbase.
• A judge ordered him to donate about $30,000 to a children’s cancer foundation within 30 days, leave the country as soon as possible, and accept a three-year entry ban.
• Prosecutors say he submitted false flight plan data and was authorized only to fly over Punta Arenas before continuing south to land in Antarctica.
• His lawyer argues he diverted due to poor weather, received authorization to land, and was subjected to an exaggerated arrest.
• The 20-year-old was attempting a seven-continent solo flight to raise money for childhood cancer research and called his detention “mundane” while praising Chileans’ hospitality.