ANTARCTIC CRASH

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21116, 17 March 1934, Page 13

ANTARCTIC CRASH

+ AKROIM.ANK WRECKED AT UTTEE AMKRK'A PASSENC.EKS NOP SERIOUSLY HURT ;Dv Radio Special to the United Press " Association. Copyright. From the Byrd Expedition.) (Received March IG, 5.5 p.m.) LITTLE AMERICA. March 1-1. The single-cngined Fokker monoplane Blue Blade, one of the four of the expedition, crashed at 12.30 p.m. 10-day, 500 yards south of Little America. The pilot, Lieutenant-Commander Schlossbach (United States Navy) and his three passengers. including M'" Uarrv Young, of New Zealand, were severely shaken, or sufTored slight cuts, but were otherwise uninjured. The machine was completely wrecked, but the engine and instruments can be salvaged. The Fokker had just taken oil in a temperature 20 degrees below zero for a test flight preparatory to a southern flight in company with the Pilgrim monoplane. 'I ocethcr the two aeroplanes were to transport to a depot 100 miles south Hi? food and store's required for tli" advance winter base which Admiral Bvrd proposed to establish on the Ross Sea ice barri-r, approximately 200 miles south of Little America. Tra.-tors are now making ready here for the southern advance. They are to pick up the stores and relay them as far through as time and weather will permit. Admiral Bvrd was disinclined to let the crash discourage the immediate prosecution of his various southern missions. Last week's three days' blizzard, overcast skies, abominable visibility, and high drift-laden windshave seriously delayed the projected southern excursions. "Good weather is too precious this season to be wasted so long as we have good weather, and from now until April 19. when the winter meht sets in. it will lie rare." said Admiral Byrd. "We must take advantage of it."