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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: search; Russian flyers; Fairbanks; Alaska; Jimmy Mattern; Arctic circle; Joe Crosson; mercy pilot; Hot Springs; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86038

Mattern Closes Search For Lost Russian Flyers. Mattern Closes Search for Lost Russian Flyers FAIRBANKS, Alaska.— — Jimmy Mattern today abandoned the search for six Russian flyers who are lost in the Arctic circle, convinced that further flights in his land plane were dangerous and hopeless. Other rescue flyers continued the quest and Joe Crosson, famed Alaskan "mercy pilot," sped north to Hot Springs, 100 miles from here, where natives said they had seen flares for several nights. The flares were sighted nightly about 11 o'clock, according to the reports.