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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: missing flyers; Fairbanks; Alaska; Alexei Gratciansky; ice breaker Krassin; Barrow; gasoline; George Hubert Wilkins; MacKenzie river delta; Aklavik; N. W. T; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Breaker; Mackenzie River; Pacific; Wilkins; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90091

Flares Renew Hope For Missing Flyers. Flares Renew Hope for Missing Flyers FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 21. UP)—Placing great importance in reports natives saw flares off the Barrow coast 10 days ago, soviet Pilot Alexsei Gratciansky and his crew of four prepared to take off early today in a new search of northern areas for the missing soviet flyers. Rumors were current here today that flares had also been sighted a few days ago by the Russian ice breaker Krassin 200 miles west of Barrow. The possibility was considered here the flares were from small quantities of gasoline set afire. In the meantime Sir George Hubert Wilkins awaited the lifting of heavy clouds on the MacKenzie river delta before proceeding to Aklavik, N. W. T.