| Summary: | Alaskan Fliers, Lost Week, Safe: Pilot, Two Passengers Found By Searching Plane. ALASKAN FLIERS, LOST WEEK, SAFE Pilot, two Passengers Found by Searching Plane ANCHORAGE], Alaska, Feb. 17 (AP)—Bearing bruised and scratched faces, but suffering little otherwise from a week of exposure in the wilds of the Kuskokwim country, Pilot Donald Goodman and his two passengers were safe today after being rescued by a searching plane which saw their huge scrawled word "Help," made with evergreen boughs, from the air. Goodman related that a week ago yesterday, on a flight from McGrath here, their ship encountered a strong down draft when starting up a gulch to head for Rainy pass and he had to make a quick landing. With him were Paul Keating, a lower Yukon trader, and R. E. Laurie, an engineer at Takotna. He set the plane down on a narrow stretch of the river ice, between the trees, damaging it some, and then began a week's wait for rescue planes. Yesterday afternooa Pilot Estol Call, accompanied by Cecil Higgins, mechanic, sighted them on the ice and landed and found them. Later Call flew back to Anchorage with Keating and Goodman, and Laurie and Higgins remained behind to be flown out today. During the week, despite bad weather, seven planes took part in the search, flying over different localities. Little fear had been felt for the safety of the men, as they carried emergency food supplies and rifles. The plane was forced down near Rainy pass, Goodman related. After the landing, the two immediately set out and walked a short distance down the river course and found an empty cabin. There they lived until they were found. Game was plentiful in the vicinity, and no hardships were suffered, outside of the bruises in the forced landing, Goodman said.
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