WAY LOST AND TIME
WILEY POST IN ALASKA
LANDING CAUSES DAMAGE
BUT AIEMAN FLIES ON
United Press Association—By Electric ,Telo
graph—Copyright. (Received July 22, 0 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, July 21,
After reaching the North American Continent again on his flight round the world from New York, which he left last Saturday morning, Wiley Post lost his way above Alaska, and in landing did considerable damage to his aeroplane Winnie Mac. Tho airman was not hurt.
Later a message from Flat, Alaska, stated that Mr. Post crashed late on Thursday in the airport field, but was not hurt. The aeroplane nose-dived over the propeller, which was bent. The landing gear was damaged. The airman was lost for seven hours over Alaska. It is believed he will be able to take to the air again on Friday.
A later message states that Post took off from Flat at 7.28 a.m. on Friday and landed at Fairbanks at 10.22 a.in.
Another message reports that James Mattern, the round-the-world flyer whose aeroplane was wrecked six weeks ago in Siberia; landed at Nome, Alaska, today in a Soviet aeroplane flown by a Russian aviator.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 13
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188WAY LOST AND TIME Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 13
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