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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: crash; Alaska; mystery; License Plate; relics; Fairbanks; Arthur F. Hines; Healy river country; John Hajdukovich; Bill McConn; Carl Tweiten; Good Paster; John Lonz; Alton Nordale; Dawson; Y. T.; wreckage; Jack Herman; searching; airplane route; airplane hunt; Alaska aviators; gold discovery; Yukon town; Will Rogers; Wiley Post; Point Barrow; E. L. Disel; Toledo; Ohio; mercantile establishment; U. S. district court; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Hines; Pacific; Yukon; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90031

Crash In Alaska: Remains Of Burned Plane And Bones Tell Story./Solves Mystery Of Year./Prospector Brings License Plate And Relics From Ship To Fairbanks To Prove Tale. CRASH IN ALASKA Remains Of Burned Plane and Bones Tell Story SOLVES MYSTERY OF YEAR Prospector Brings License Plate and Relics From Ship to Fairbanks to Prove Tale. Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 8. -- (/P) -- A prospecting party's discovery of a burned airplane and bones on a barren mountain top 175 miles east of here apparently solved today the year-old mystery of the lost Arthur F. Hines ship and four persons. Flying into Fairbanks from the Healy river country, John Hajdukovich, prospector, brought the motor plate from a wrecked and burned plane which he said he, Bill McConn and Carl Tweiten found on the mountain about 15 miles west of Good Paster, Alaska. Numbers on the plate were the same as those registered for the ship in which Pilot Hines, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonz and Alton Nordale, all of Fairbanks, took off from Dawson, Y. T. for have August 19, 1935, and vanished. Bones In Wreckage. Of the passengers, Hajdukovich said his party found no trace, except a few charred bones in the wreckage. He doubted if it would be possible to identify the remains. No arrangements were announced immediately for a party ot return with Hajdukovich to the mountain. Two days after the plane failed to arrive here in what should have been a four-hour flight, Hines' partner, Pilot Jack Herman led a searching party along the airplane route. It was the start of an airplane hunt which famous Alaska aviators carried on until winter snows ended probability Hines' orange-winged ship could be found. Shock to Alaskans. The disappearance of the Hines party, who had flown to Dawson to attend the gold discovery day celebration of the Yukon town, came as an added shock to Alaskans after the death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post in the wreck of Post's red monoplane on Point Barrow less than a week before. Mrs. E. L. Disel, Toledo, Ohio, the sister of Lonz, came north to take charge of his mercantile establishment when the hunt closed. Nordale was cleark of the U. S. district court at Fairbanks.