MISSION OF SUICIDE.
AVIATION HEBO DISAPPEARS. LAST FLIGHT INTO GULF OF ALASKA. (Received Tuesday, 9.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. A message from Anchorage, Alaska, states that Frank Dormant, one of the North-West’s greatest aviation heroes, on Sunday took tp the air on a suicide mission and has not been reported since. Apparently he accomplished his purpose after telling friends that he would not see them again. He flew out towards the Gulf of Alaska with a small supply of petrol, where he must have perished soon afterwards. He gained a reputation in the North country through many daring aerial exploits in 1929. He was one of many searchers for the lost ’plane of Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, Wilkin’s polar pilot. Recently he was in legal trouble. He is alleged to have been smuggling furs into the United (States. The suicide venture recalls the similar case of self-destruction of Miss Loise Stanton.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1934, Page 5
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