Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Russian flyers; Arctic; bad weather; search; Hazeltown; B. C.; Fairbanks; Alaska; Vancouver; Vanderhoof; Garland Lincoln; American airman; Jimmy Mattern; Moscow; soviet transpolar flyers; aviators; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86018

Hopes Fade For Russian Flyers Lost In Arctic: Bad Weather Holds Back Search By Planes. HOPES FADE FOR RUSSIAN FLYERS LOST IN ARCTIC Bad Weather Holds Back Search By Planes. Hazeltown, B. C. (/P)--The tri-motored all-metal refueling plane enroute north to Fairbanks, Alaska, to aid in the search for six missing soviet airmen, was turned back by fog today and landed here at 9:00 a.m. The plane left Vancouver yesterday, and stayed overnight at Vanderhoof. Early this morning it took off for Fairbanks, but turned back 15 minutes later after it passed over this northern town. Pilot Garland Lincoln said his trip to join the American airman Jimmy Mattern at Fairbanks would be continued "when the weather clears." Fairbanks, Alaska (/P)--Last seen shortly after they took off before cheering crowds at Moscow a week ago, the soviet transpolar flyers were still missing today. Aviator from three nation chafed today at prolonged searching because of heavy weather.