ARCTIC FLYERS LOST?
Russian Trans-Polar Aviators
On Ice-Field.
WHAT ESKIMOS SAW.
WASHINGTON, April 27,
The State Department has been informed from Point Barrow, Alaska, that Eskimos report having seen a huge aeroplane sink through an ice-field into the water in the Oliktuk region in the middle of August.
A week later a white trader noticed oil on the surface of the water, indicating that the Russian flyers, who were on their way to the United States from Moscow at that time, had perished.
Practically no news has 'oeen received from the six Russian flyers, lead by the pilot. Levanevsky, who left Moscow on August 12 in a four-engined amphibian aeroplane to attempt to fly to the United States over the North Pole. The aviators were due to arrive at Fairbanks. Alaska. on August 14, but a few signals picked up in Alaska indicated that they were jn difficulties.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 98, 28 April 1938, Page 7
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