Lost Airmen Safe
FOUND ON ARCTIC ISLAND Eight Men and Two Planes CANADIANS LOCATED BY ESKIMOS (United P.A .— By Telegraph — Copyright) Received Noon. VANCOUVER, Wednesday. AFTER being- missing- for eight weeks, Colonel C. D. McAlpine and his party of seven airplane explorers are safe at Cambridge Bay, 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Leaving Baker Lake on September 8 for Bathurst, they lost their way in a snow-storm, striking- Camridbe. They were unable to use their wireless equipment until today.
Since September 16, all America has been thrilled by tales of reckless flights by the daring aviators who ventured into the stark silence of the bleak lonely North, in a far-flung search for McAlpine and his companions. They were lost with two planes It? the Arctic, without a trace. On Monday, the Department of
Marine and Fisheries received a radio flash from Fort Churchill saying the McAlpine party had been found alive and well at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. Eskimos are believed to have located the men. At one time 19 planes were engaged in the hunt, covering 40,000 miles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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180Lost Airmen Safe Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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