The Archive · 1932

"FLYING FAMILY" 'MISSING

Copenhagen, Sept. 7.

The "Aying family," who started from New York on August 22, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hut chanson and their two little daoghters, have now got into trouble.

They made a successful hop' of '65 miles from Labbdea to Greenland but now the father of the family has been fined 1,000 kroner by ths Governor of Southern Green-end because their machine landed in that country without permission i Jand they were also classed as aliens, against whom their are strict Ye: galatians in Greenland.

It is not yet known when they will be able io continue their high: to Scotland as they have not yet succeeded in making arrangements fuelling and the Greenland Administration has no supply for}

Sept. 12, It is feared that disaster has befallen' Mr. and Mrs, George Hut-chanson and their two daughters, generally described as. the "fying Hutchingons,"" in their projected flight from New York to Edinburgh via Greenland, 'An S. 0. S. was received at! Angmagzalik, Greenland, yesterday, reporting that the fying family had been compelled to make a foreed. landing' on the sea near coast of Greenland while on. the way from Julianchaab to Angmagsah receipt of the distress signal, the British trawler Lord Talbot proceeded at full speed to the posi tion given by the Hutchinsons, but found no trace of their mac Previously the trawler had tained contact with the fying family by wireless for over an hour, after which there were no further sign tals from the plane.

'Mr. and Mrs, Hutchinsons' two! daughters are Kathryn, aged eight, and Janet Lee, six years of age.

The party left New York on. August 22, a blaze of publicity attending their departure, for it was the first time that a whole family turing to eross the Atlan-four hours after the receipt of the first S. 0. S. that the Lord Talbot reached the position given by the Hutehinsons, 65.28 de-recs north and S845 degrees west.

The machine was an amphibian and there was every hope that she [would ride normal seas. The ordinary land under-carriage had been detached at Nova Scotia and sent steamer to Edinburgh to be used in later. stages of the flight Reuter.

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