(11 Aug 2025)
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Punta Arenas, Chile – 11 August 2025
1. Screen showing Ethan Guo live from Antarctica in court ++Screen in shot is showing feed from Chile judiciary++
2. Wide of courtroom
3. Screen in court with lawyers and Ethan Guo
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Magallanes Regional Prosecutor, Cristian Crisosto:
“The defendant must leave the country. Secondly, once he leaves the country, he will be prohibited from entering the national territory for a period of three years. And thirdly, he will donate $30,000 to a foundation that specializes in childhood cancer in our country.”
5. Screen with Ethan Guo, lawyers and prosecutors
6. Pan of courtroom
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Santiago, Chile – 11 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ethan Guo lawyer, Jaime Barrientos Ramirez:
“I want to emphasize that our client, Ethan Guo, did not violate any criminal, administrative, or aviation law. On the contrary, he took off and landed from Punta Arenas to Antarctica, expressly authorized by the DGAC (General Directorate of Civil Aviation). There is written evidence of this.”
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Punta Arenas, Chile – 11 August 2025
8. Courtroom
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Santiago, Chile – 11 August 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ethan Guo lawyer, Jaime Barrientos Ramirez:
“From our legal perspective, there is no regulatory impediment preventing him from flying his own aircraft from Antarctica to the mainland, and particularly to Punta Arenas. Furthermore, from a strictly technical perspective, there is sufficient flight autonomy to return flying his own aircraft.”
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Punta Arenas, Chile – 11 August 2025
10. Computer in court room.
11. Screen via zoom showing Ethan Guo live from Antarctica listening to trial ++Screen in shot is showing feed from Chile judiciary++
STORYLINE:
What was intended as a fundraising mission for cancer research, has become a nightmare for Asian-U.S. pilot and teen influencer Ethan Guo, who has been stuck since June in Antarctica, where he landed clandestinely after allegedly providing false data to Chileans authorities about his flight plan.
Guo, who has more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram, was charged with handing false information to ground control and landing without authorization in the Chilean Antarctic territory on June 28. After he spent six weeks at a military base on the continent, the Guarantee Court of Punta Arenas, a small town in Chile’s southernmost Patagonia region, closed the case against the young pilot on Monday.
Judge Franco Reyes Pozo approved an agreement between his lawyers and the prosecutor’s office for the influencer, requiring him to pay a $30,000 donation to a children’s cancer foundation within 30 days to avoid a trial. He must also leave the country as soon as conditions allow and is prohibited from re-entering Chilean territory for three years.
Guo has been traveling and documenting on Instagram his solo flights across all seven continents to raise up to $1 million for cancer research and awareness through St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
But his latest adventure took a dark turn in June, when the American pilot defied Chile’s Aeronautical Code by providing authorities with “false flight plan data” and jeopardizing “air traffic safety, leading authorities to declare that the aircraft went missing”, the court said on Monday in a statement.
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