Whitehorse Star, July 21, 1933

POST FORCED DOWN IN FLAT CREEK; CONTINUES FLIGHT

FLASH, July 21. - Post forced down at Flat Creek, Alaska, yesterday afternoon. Fairbanks planes left to assist him. Post left at 7:28 this morning.

Unverified reports say Post cracked up at Flat Creek and is using a Fairbanks plane to continue his fight.

BERLIN, Germany, July 16. - Wiley Post, well started on his projected world solo flight, was delayed tonight by a leaking oil line on his monoplane "Winnie Mae."

The trouble forced him to land at Koenigsberg, East Prussia.

The veteran Oklahoma pilot, who flew yesterday from New York to Berlin in 25 hours, 46 minutes on the first leg of his attempt to girdle the globe in six days, was en route to Novosibirsk, Siberia, when the necessity for repairs forced him down.

However, he assured the United Press in an exclusive telephone interview by telephone from Koenigsberg, that nothing serious was the matter with his plane.

MOSCOW, July 17. - Wiley Post, American round-the-world solo flier, landed here from Koenigsberg, Germany, this afternoon and a few hours after roared eastward on the 1,818 mile journey to Novosibirsk in Siberia.

The best of weather conditions prevailed from Moscow as far as the Ural Mountains.

Post refused a chance to snatch a few minutes sleep at the Moscow airport, that he might speed up mechanics working on his plane.

MOSCOW, July 18. - Wiley Post, continuing on his solo flight around the world, passed over Krasnoyarsk en route to Irkutsk.

At Krasnoyarsk he had completed almost one half of his perfect flight.

NOVOSIBIRSK, Siberia, July 18. - In the neighborhood of seventeen hours ahead of the time he made for a similar distance in 1931, Wiley Post streaked for Irkutsk, Siberia today, just two hours and fifteen minutes after finishing and 1818 mile flight from Moscow.

Post was lost on his way here from Moscow and only his sense of direction, his automatic pilot having failed, enabled him to conquer fog and rain to land safely here.

At one time he had to fly at an altitude of 21,000 feet, so bad was the fog. Once he landed in a field, he did not know where.

The doughty flier swooped down on the Novosibirsk field at 7:27 p.m. Monday and then, almost exhausted, took off again at 10:02 with the intention of getting badly needed rest at Irkutsk.

BLAGENOVITCH, July 19. - Wiley Post, round-the-world flier, landed here today on his flight from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, Siberia.

Blagenovitch is on the Northern Manchurian-Siberian frontier, 1,000 miles east of Irkutsk and 400 miles west of Khabarovsk.

The dispatch announcing his arrival did not state the time he landed.

It is believed the American flier may have been forced down by trouble with the feed pipe on his robot, or automatic feed pipe which was not working properly on his jump from Moscow to Novosibirsk.

The Moscow weather bureau reported that Post, on his next hop from Khabarovsk to Alaska, would encounter the worst weather conditions of the entire flight.

Note: Two years later in 1935, Wiley Post and Will Rogers, celebrated humorist, writer and film star, crashed their plane 15 miles south of Point Barrow, Alaska. They were flying from Fairbanks to Barrow.

Because of coastal winds, they found themselves low on fuel. With only 14 miles to go, they thought they could make it but soon ran out of fuel. The plane crashed.

Post and Rogers were leisurely enjoying a bear hunt in the wilds of Alaska.