WASHED OUT OF WINDOW.
HOW SURVIVING OFFICER ESCAPED. KEEPS AFLOAT BY CLINGING TO PLANK. WASHINGTON, April 6. Lieut.-Commander Wiley, the chief survivor of the Akron airship disaster, said that he had been submerged in the control car by water coming in at the window and was then carried out of the window. He sought to reach the airship by swimming, as it was silhouetted in lightning flashes. The airship, however, was drifting away rapidly. “At about five hundred yards away,” he said, “I could see the airship entirely on the water broken .in two or three places and submerged about one-third of her diameter, with the bow, for a length of about two hundred feet, inclined in the air at an angle of about 30 degrees. I saw several men in the water and heard their cries. None were close to me.” .
Commander Wiley said that he clung to a plank and was hauled aboard the Phoebus after being in the water from thirty minutes to an hour.
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Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 5
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