MISSING RUSSIAN AVIATORS
♦ EXTENSIVE SEARCH BY SIR HUBERT WILKINS NEW YORK, March 6. “After an aerial search covering 3000 miles on courses less than 10 miles apart, I am convinced that Levanevsky, the mission Russian flyer, has not reached the Alaskan coast,” said Sir Hubert Wilkins from Aklavik, Alaska. “Had he crashed in the mountains I think" we would have seen the wreck. Had he landed on the Arctic tundra some of the crew would probably have been able to walk and would have established some means of communication.”—North American Newspaper Alliance, Copyright. 1 Levanevsky and his companions left on a flight across the North Pole, in the latter half of last year. They hoped to reach San Diego and establish, a longrdlstattee record^
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 9
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