FLIGHT HAMPERED
ADMISSION BY OPERATOR HARDSHIP AND LONELINESS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 25 The trial has opened of Mikhail Vosnissensky, chief wireless operator at the Arctic station in Tranquillity Bay. He is accused of sabotaging polar communications and thus hampering Sigismund Levanevsky’s flight to America in 1937.
Vosnissensky said that hardship and loneliness had led to his degeneration and indifference to duty. Physical illness due to the monotony of his isolation and his hours had so tired him that he had shut ofT the wireless and failed to transmit important messages from Levanevsky. He had suppressed Moscow’s order for his dismissal.
A Russian party, under the Soviet “ace,” Sigismund Levanevsky, took off from Moscow on August 12. 1937, to fly non-stop to Fairbanks, Alaska, en route to New York. After passing the North Pole nothing more was heard of them.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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143FLIGHT HAMPERED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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