PLANE CRASH
HUGE RUSSIAN MACHINE. FOUR OF CREW LOSE LIVES. TOLL OF NORTH POLE ROUTE
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 20.
The Moscow correspondent of the “News-Chronicle” says that flying home from Rudolf Island, after a vain search for the pilot, Levanevski, who disappeared with a crew of six while flying to America from Moscow, an aeroplane caught on fire and crashed. The pilot was able to take off again, but the ’plane again crashed on the river at Archangel, killing four of the crew of 16, including the oldest Arctic pilot, Babushkin, who was associated with the Papanin expedition. This makes a death-roll of 24 in attempts to conquer the North Pole.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 187, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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