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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Arctic hunt; Fairbanks; Alaska; Jimmy Mattern; Point Barrow; flight; Russian aviators; missing; Moscow; the arctic ocean; Bob Randall; Canadian aviator; ice breaker Kcassin; searching parties; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Breaker; Pacific; Randall; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90076

Mattern Rests In Arctic Hunt. MATTERN BESTS IN ARCTIC HUNT FAIRBANKS, Alaska. -- (U.P) — Jimmy Mattern paused here today after "a flight from Point Barrow that brought no trace of the six Russian aviators missing 12 days on a transpolar flight from Moscow. Mattern flew northeasterly from Point Barrow to the 148th meridian, north to the 74th parallel and several hundred miles over the Bob Randall, Canadian aviator, and several Russian flyers at Point Barrow, were grounded by weather when Mattern left. The soviet ice breaker Kcassin was sighted from Point Barrow yesterday as it sped to join the searching parties.