POIGNANT PERIL

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1932, Page 5

POIGNANT PERIL

FLYING FAMILY PLANE BETWEEN ICEBERGS. TWO TERRIBLE NIGHTS. FINAL FLARE BROUGHT AID. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. Mr G. Hutchinson, organiser of the flying family air'trip from America to London, in a wireless message to the British United Press from Angmagsalik, Greenland, says they were endeavouring to pass under bad weather and flew at an altitude of 50 feet between icebergs. The windshield be.eame covered with ice. The fliers found that the plane was unable to ride out the gale, therefore they descended in a rough sea between icebergs. ' The ice dented one of the pontoons and the crow was quickly drenched.' The anchor would not grip, so they taxied ashore on an island. The two children, Mr Hutchinson’s daughters, aged eight- and six, were not afraid and showed no-sign of tears through-, out the most hazardous moments. The party of eight huddled together in a cave, where they spent two uncomfortable arid bitterly cold nights until the last of their fuel was used as a flare and attracted' the trawler, Lord Talbot. The party earlier had the .tantalising experience of hearing ’ messages from" the. searching ships, to which they were unable to reply owing to the swamping of the machine damaging the wireless transmitter, “We boarded the life boat as a huge iceberg crashed on the fragments of our plane,’’ said Mr Hutchinson. An Arigmagsalik message says that: Mr and Mrs Hutchinson, their' children and the four others accompanying them will depart for England today aboard the Lord Talbot. TRANSPORT ARRANGED. - NEWSPAPER’S GOOD DEED. (Received f) a.m.) LONDON, September 15, The proprietors of the “Daily Herald,’’ anxious, to save, the Hutchinson family from the rigorous Arctid winter, have arranged for the trawler, Lord Talbot, t/j take them to Thurso. There they avill entrain for London, Mr. George Hutchinson has wirelessed to the “Daily'Herald” expressing his gratitude.