SEARCHERS’ ESCAPE.
WRECKED AIR-LINER IN UTAH. Eight men had just recovered 151 b of mail from the wreckage of a transport plane which crashed in the Lake. Hardy mountains, Utah, United State's, six months ngo, when two avalanches thundered down from an 11,000 ft. peak. The members of the party, who had hoped to recover the bodies of those killed in the crash, barely escaped death themselves. One was swept from his feet by the rush of air as the first avalanche tore past. He slid many yards down the mountainside without injury. Another scrambled down into a crevasse 20ft. deep, and sheltered there while rocks hurtled overhead.
The wreckage of the aeroplane was buried under tons of rock, earth and snow, and it is unlikely that the bodies of the occupants will ever be recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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136SEARCHERS’ ESCAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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