Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Crashes & Wreckage Missing Planes.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1930
• Subjects: Ketchikan; Alaska; Pilot Robin Renahan; Seattle; Percy island; vessel Dorothea; Vellenar by region; Canada; telegram; Vancouver; B. C.; city council; Premier R. B. Bennett; dominion government; Bellingham; Wash.; Sam Clerf; Frank Hatcher; E. J. A. Burke; Emil Kading; Bob Marten; Yukon wilderness; plane; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Percy; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/89967

Island Searched For Lost Fliers. ISLAND SEARCHED FOR LOST FLIERS KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 30.— MP)—The search for Pilot Robin Renahan and two Seattle men lost in a seaplane in this vicinity for two months, had turned today to Percy island after the rescue party aboard the Seattle vessel Dorothea thoroughly covered the Vellenar bay region. Hopes that Canada would reenter the search were raised with the dispatch yesterday of a telegram from the Vancouver, B. C. city council to Premier R. B. Bennett, urging the dominion government to reconsider its decision to abandon the search. The telegram pointed out that Renahan, native of Bellingham, Wash., was a well known Canadian war pilot and said "there remains an extensive area involved still untouched by search parties." Renahan, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher were flying north to search for E. J. A. Burke, who was found dead, and his companions, Emil Kading and Bob Marten, who survived two months in the Yukon wilderness after their plane was damaged.