ALL SAFE

Evening Star, Issue 25958, 25 November 1946, Page 7

ALL SAFE

Mountain Ordeal Survived Land and Air Rescue Parties Reach Glacier ■ 1 1 "■ 1 V (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 24. All 12 of the passengers and crew of the Dakota which on Tuesday crash-landed on Rosenlaui glacier, high on the Franco-1 talian Alps, were rescued to-day by Swiss Storch planes after their five-day ordeal on the snow-covered mountainside. The rescued were taken from the glacier to Meiringen, a Swiss village five miles down the mountain. The Storch planes were fitted with ski landing gear, which ran a “ taxi service ”. to a point near the wrecked Dakota. It was not possible for the two planes to bring the passengers out in any particular order, They picked up those nearest the landing place and flew back while the others to be rescued moved’ towards the landing place. - By the time the planes made their first landing, most of the passengers and crew were strung out down the glacier in the care of the ground parties, which were taking them by foot down to the village.

The rescued, who are now at Meiringen, are: Brigadier-general Haynes, leader of general Mark Clark’s advisory group in Austria; Mrs Haynes; Sergeant Lewis Hill, radio operator of the Dakota; Staff-sergeant Wayne Folsom, who has a badly injured knee and frost-bitten feet; Mrs Tate, the wife of Brigadier-general Tate ; General Clark’s deputy; Colonel William Macmahon, retiring Chief of Staff of the

United States (forces in Austria; Mrs Snavely, the wife of General Snavely, American air chief in Austria; Mrs Macmahon, the wife of Colonel Mactnahon, and her 11-year-old daughter (both are well but the mother has a strained leg): George Harvey, the civilian petroleum officer in Austria; Lieutenant Irving Matthew, co-pilot of the Dakota; and Captain Ralph Tate, pilot of the crashed plane and a son of General Tate.