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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Point Barrow; Russian flyers; search; Arctic regions; Sigismund Levaneffsky; North Pole; United States; aerial survey; storm and fog; international rescue expedition; Northern Canada; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Canada; Pacific; Barrow; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86024

Point Barrow Base For Russ Flyers Search. Point Barrow Base For Russ Flyers Search By United Press. POINT BARROW, Alaska, 'Saturday, Aug. 21.—An emergency base for the search of Arctic regions by famous flyers of three nations was set up today. Object of the extensive hunt over barren tundra and ice floes was the Russian plane carrying Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions on an attempted flight over the North Pole to the United States. They have been missing eight days. Drums of gasoline were piled high on a sand spit. A government tractor moved searching planes around and lined them up for take-offs. Speed in completing the arrangements was becoming a vital factor because the long Arctic night was beginning to descend and the hours suitable for aerial survey grew less with the passage of each day. Fog and storm, which had held up the search for several days, showed signs of breaking and the international rescue expeditions either here or converging on bases in Northern Canada were encouraged by the prospect of clear skies.