ACCIDENT IN ANTARCTIC
Snocat Will Not Be Recovered
(New Zealand Press Association) SCOTT BASE, November 23. New Zealand survey party’s snocat which crashed into a crevasse in the Cape Selborne area last Thursday, causing the death of its driver (Lieutenant T. Couzens) is wrecked and be written off. AU equipment and food that could be recovered have been brought to the surface and the party has camped near the scaie of the accident. Lieutenant-Commander J. Len- ? OX *u Kil &J2! der , at Scott Base for the 1969-60 period, flew down to the party in an Otter aircraft yesterday, With him was Mr R. I. Walcott, flfld assistant and dog team driver, who has been flown in to operate with the dog teams on the South Victoria Land traverse.
The aeroplane landed at a spot alongside the camp and was to have returned to McMurdo at midnight, but with bad weather closing in on McMurdo, it was ordered to remain overnight. A radio schedule was arranged for 7 a.m. today to obtain a weather report and to decide whether flying would be possible. Lieutenant-Commander King is discussing the future plans of the field parties in the light of the accident
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29061, 25 November 1959, Page 21
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