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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: search; lost flyers; Moscow; Archangel; soviet airmen; Rudolf island; soviet air base; arctic wastes; Alaska; Sigismund Levaneffsgy; the United States; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Pacific; Rudolf Island
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90093

Search Widens For Lost Flyers. SEARCH WIDENS FOR LOST FLYERS Moscow (/P) -- Three four motored planes with veterans of arctic flying at the controls roared off toward Archangel today on the first leg of a search across the roof of the world for six mixing soviet airmen. They were to fly to Rudolf island, soviet air base in the far north, and then survey a wide swath of arctic wastes across the pole toward Alaska. Comb Entire Route The searchers planned to come the route upon which Sigismund Levaneffsgy and five companions apparently were forced down August 13 on a hop toward the United States. Good weather was reported at along the route to be followed by the searchers. They planned to fly about 15 miles apart, scanning 1300 miles of desolate ice fields and water.