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

Foggy Weather Hampers Search. Foggy Weather Hampers Search BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 24. UP) —Eleven planes, 10 of them Russian-owned or chartered, were ready today to participate in a widespread search for the lost soviet transpolar flyers, missing since August 13. Generally bad weather, extending from...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1937
Subjects:
foggy weather
search
Barrow
Alaska
Russian-owned
soviet transpolar flyers
Moscow
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Coppermine
N. W. T
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Aviation
Pacific
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86029
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Summary:Foggy Weather Hampers Search. Foggy Weather Hampers Search BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 24. UP) —Eleven planes, 10 of them Russian-owned or chartered, were ready today to participate in a widespread search for the lost soviet transpolar flyers, missing since August 13. Generally bad weather, extending from Moscow, where three planes awaited a take-off to follow the course taken by the vanished Sigismund Levaneffsky and his plane, to Barrow and Coppermine, N. W. T., kept flyers grounded.

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