WRECKED AIRSHIP
THE PILOT'S ACCOUNT Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, February 10. (Received February 11, at 11 a.m.) Telling the brief story of the disaster to the airship V 6, the pilot (Pochekin) said he saw the mountainside too late. The airship pancaked against the mountain through trees. The six survivors gathered around the bonfire until the dawn when the rescuers arrived on skis. [Thirteen members of the crew were killed when the Soviet’s largest airship, U.S.S.R. V 6, crashed on a training flight from Moscow to Murmansk and back, preparatory to attempting the rescue of the polar scientists.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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