Northwest History. Alaska 7. Aviation Accidents, United States

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Nome; Alaska; frozen wastes; Alaskan pilot; Elephant Point; Kotsebue; Seward peninsula; Pilot Carl Ben Eielson; Mechanic Earl Borland; Teller; North Cape; Siberia; Pilot Bill Graham; W. B. Miller; R. B. Julian; the Canadian government; Pilots Dorbandt and Cope; Pilot Joe Crosson; Harold Gillam; Seattle; Fred J. Omen; Seattle Times; fur trading ship Nanuk; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Borland; Eielson; Gillam; Nanuk; Pacific; Seward Peninsula
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/89273

Frozen Wastes Yield Up Plane: Pilot Graham And Two Passengers Safe -- Still Search For Eielson. FROZEN WASTES YlELD UP PLANE Pilot Grahain and Two Passeiigers Safe — Still Search for Eielson. NOME, Alaska. Dec. 25. (/P) -- With the safe arrival of a supposedly missing Alaskan pilot and his two pasengers at Elepphant Point on Kotsebue sound across Seward peninsula from Nome, the northland again turned to the search for Pilot Carl Ben Eielson and Mechanic Earl Borland, missing since early in November somewhere between Teller, Alaska, and North Cape, Siberia. Arrival of Pilot Bill Graham and his passengers, W. B. Miller and R. B. Julian, who flew to Elephant Point in connection with a huge reindeer drive now under way for the Canadian government, was reported by Pilots Dorbandt and Cope, who flew from Teller, Alaska, yesterday to search for them. The party had been forced down by a storm at an isolated point. Meanwhile word from the fur trading ship Nanuk, ice-bound at North Cape to which Eielson and Borland were flying when lost, revealed that Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam had made a short flight over the snow fields near North Cape but had returned without finding any trace of the missing flyers. Clew to Eielson. Seattle, Dec. 25. (/P)--Clew has been uncovered in the search for Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, arctic flyers who have been missing more than six weeks, Fred J. Omen, director of rescue operations in Nome, informed the Seattle Times today. He said Pilot Joe Crosson radioed a message from the trading ship Nanuk near North Cape, Siberia, that traders and natives near there had heard Eielson's plane circling overhead for a long while as though seeking a place to land.