MISSING AIRMEN.
Search In North Canada For
Eielson.
EXPEDITION SETS OUT.
VANCOUVER, December
Six Canadian airmen sailed yesterday for Alaska on an extraordinary expedition in the hope of rescuing the American flyer?, Eieison and Borland, who have been missing for several weeks.
Ten days will elapse before the Canadian airmen are on the ground with their three Fairchild aeroplanes. They will face mid-winter conditions with the temperature often 40 or 50 degrees below zero in an unparalleled attempt to operate over the most remote districts of Siberia bordering on the Bering Straits. Eielson flew the best aeroplane in Alaska on his final trip. Local aviators flying recently from Nome attempted to rescue him. but were handicapped by their inferior machines.
R.A.F. ACCIDENTS. LOWEST FOR EIGHT YEARS. LONDON, December 22. Owing to the Handley-Page slotted wing device the number of aerial accidents in 1029 was the lowest for eight years. While there were 34 accidents and 51 deaths in 1922, with 370 machines flown by the Royal Air Force, there were 31 accidents and 42 deaths with more than 800 machines flown in 1929.
Parachutes are a subsidiary cause of the reduced death rate. They saved 16 lives in 1929.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 7
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