LOST AIRMEN FOUND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9

LOST AIRMEN FOUND

LANDED IN GREENLAND FIRE SEEN BY ESKIMOS j (United r..1.— 8y Telegraph—Copyright ) i (Australian and .V.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Sunday. The two American airmen. Messrs. Bert Hassell and Park Cramer, who were believed to have been lost with iheir plane, the Greater Rockford, en route to Stockholm from Rockford. Illinois, have been discovered alive and well by members of the University of Michigan Greenland expedii tion. The flyers were driven from their course by a storm, and were forced to descend at Sukkertoppen on an ice arm on August 19. Afterwards they set out on foot for civilisation. Each had a ration of eight ounces of pemmican a day. It was by the merest coincidence that some Eskimos saw the castaways’ distress signal tire. The Eskimos reported what they had seen to the ! university expedition. The news was received exclusively by the New York ‘’Times’” within two minutes of the rescue of the airmen. \ Messrs. Bert Hassell (pilot) and Parker Cramer (navigator) left Rockford, Illinois, ! on August 15. in the airplane Greater j Rockford, on an attempted flight to Stockholm in three stages. They arrived jat Cochrane. Ontario, the same afterI noon. On Saturday, August 18. they set j out on the second stage of the flight for Mount Evans. Greenland, which they exI pected to reach on August 19. However. S they did not arrive there. Sukkertoppen. where the two airmen descended, is a ! Danish village on the west coast of Greenland, on the islet of Manistok.