Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Crashes & Wreckage Missing Planes.
Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue At Fairbanks. Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue at Fairbanks FAIRBANKS. Alaska.—(U.R)—Soviet Russia's third trans-polar plane was overdue and unreported at noon Alaskan time (2 p. m. P. S. T.) today on a 4666-mile flight from Moscow. The...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/90071 2023-05-15T15:00:52+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Crashes & Wreckage Missing Planes. Spokane Press 1937-08-13 Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue At Fairbanks. 1937-08-13 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90071 English eng June, 2014 nwh-sh-7-13-8-90 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90071 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Alaska Box 7 Fairbanks Alaska Soviet Russia Moscow fear safety San Francisco Oakland flight the north pole Seattle A. Vartanian radio broadcasting the Arctic tundra Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1937 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:01Z Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue At Fairbanks. Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue at Fairbanks FAIRBANKS. Alaska.—(U.R)—Soviet Russia's third trans-polar plane was overdue and unreported at noon Alaskan time (2 p. m. P. S. T.) today on a 4666-mile flight from Moscow. The plane had been expected to land between 9 and 11 a. m. Alaskan time. Fear for safety of the six flyers a.board increased hourly. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(HE)—Silence today enveloped a four-motored Russian monoplane and its crew of six men known to be past the north pole and headed for a refueling stop on a flight to San Francisco or Oakland. For more than six hours the weather reports sent to them. In Seattle, A. Vartanian, soviet engineer in charge of sending weather reports to the plane, said he did not think the flyers had been forced down or crashed, however. REPORTS HOURLY. "The routine weather reports given out hourly by the army signal army corps have not been acknowledged by the flyers," Vartanian said. "We feel no apprehension over the lack of reports from the plane. It is quite possible that on the flight south from the pole they have been flying in a magnetic storm, which would blanket their radio reception and broadcasting. "During the second flight there were longer periods than six hours when we heard no word from the plane. "I don't thinkg -- and hope they haven't -- been forced down or crashed on the Arctic tundra." Text Arctic North Pole Tundra Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Arctic Fairbanks North Pole Pacific |
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Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue At Fairbanks. Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue at Fairbanks FAIRBANKS. Alaska.—(U.R)—Soviet Russia's third trans-polar plane was overdue and unreported at noon Alaskan time (2 p. m. P. S. T.) today on a 4666-mile flight from Moscow. The plane had been expected to land between 9 and 11 a. m. Alaskan time. Fear for safety of the six flyers a.board increased hourly. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(HE)—Silence today enveloped a four-motored Russian monoplane and its crew of six men known to be past the north pole and headed for a refueling stop on a flight to San Francisco or Oakland. For more than six hours the weather reports sent to them. In Seattle, A. Vartanian, soviet engineer in charge of sending weather reports to the plane, said he did not think the flyers had been forced down or crashed, however. REPORTS HOURLY. "The routine weather reports given out hourly by the army signal army corps have not been acknowledged by the flyers," Vartanian said. "We feel no apprehension over the lack of reports from the plane. It is quite possible that on the flight south from the pole they have been flying in a magnetic storm, which would blanket their radio reception and broadcasting. "During the second flight there were longer periods than six hours when we heard no word from the plane. "I don't thinkg -- and hope they haven't -- been forced down or crashed on the Arctic tundra." |
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