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1932 Kimberley rescue

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After removing the floats from the plane, Bertram flew around Australia for several months, visiting cities and towns and giving talks. His arrival at Kalgoorlie was marred when he crashed the plane at the airport causing extensive damage but no serious injury. Fred Sexton was flown to the town and
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Still thinking that they were on Melville Island they decided to walk overland to find civilisation, but when they discovered that they were not on an island they returned to the float. The float had been damaged, so to be able to paddle it again they had to cut off a section. The shortened float
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Being unable to find water, they could only think that the Aboriginal man they had met in the other bay might be able to provide help, so they secured the plane and set out to walk back to the previous bay. They were plagued by heat, thirst and hunger and were overwhelmed by swarms of flies. After
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Extremely isolated and surrounded by harsh bush, on the first night they were visited by an Aboriginal man but were unable to communicate successfully and he left them. The aviators, with only 15 litres (3.3 imp gal; 4.0 US gal) of fuel left, decided to attempt a take off and
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On 13 June a foot search by native trackers found a cigarette case bearing the initials "HB" and a handkerchief which were handed to a missionary passing in a boat. The details of the location were vague however and a malfunctioning telegraph delayed the information getting to the correct
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and lost their clothes. Barefoot and naked they abandoned the search and resolved to return to the plane. After seven days of walking a more inland route, and without water, clothes or footwear, and ravaged by mosquitoes and completely exhausted they arrived back at the seaplane.
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On 22 June, the men were found sheltering in a cave near Cape Bernier by a group of Aboriginal people. They were near death and had been lost for 39 days. A police overland party under Constable Marshall arrived a week later and they were taken to the hospital at
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set out from Surabaya four days after the disappearance to search along the planned route across the Timor Sea. At the request of the German Consul-General, the Western Australian government also commenced a land, sea and air search of possible landing sites. A
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was not as seaworthy as previously used, so they only got a few kilometres before deciding it was too dangerous to continue and they returned to shore where they found shelter under a rock ledge at Cape Bernier. They remained there until being finally rescued.
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The seaplane was located by a search aircraft on a beach near Rocky Island, 160 kilometres (99 mi) from Wyndham on 15 June but there was no sign of the men. Several days later, the Wyndham Meat Works launch
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Now thirteen days into the ordeal, the pair drained the radiator of the remaining water and removed one of the seaplane floats to use as a makeshift kayak and started paddling in a westerly direction. The ship MV
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head west in what they thought was the direction of Darwin. They managed to get airborne but were forced to land again in another bay about 35 kilometres (22 mi) away, their engine cutting out as the plane
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authorities; when it eventually did the land search was resumed with increased vigour. Sixty people were directly involved in the search which by now had received widespread publicity.
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and had intended to land at dawn the next day but they encountered a severe storm and, low on fuel, were forced to land their seaplane in the first sheltered bay they found.
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arrived at the site and found a note left by the airmen: "27 May 1932. Australia. Today we left the plane in float as a boat in a westerly direction. Bertram."
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by boat, arriving there on 6 July. The ordeal had taken 53 days. Klausmann had become demented as a result of the tribulations and needed to be restrained.
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passed by only 500 metres (1,640 ft) away but did not see them. They paddled for four days and nights and eventually came ashore north of
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Landing and rescue areas. 1. Initial landing zone near Berkeley River mouth on 15 May 1932; 2. Second landing area; ... 9, Rescued
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coast, hundreds of kilometres west of the intended destination; while they guessed that they had landed somewhere on
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Klausmann, Bertram and rescuer Constable Gordon Marshall with the Aboriginal trackers who located the two men
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as he was considered too unwell to fly. He returned to Germany by steamer but never fully recovered.
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and mechanic Adolph Klausmann were rescued while attempting to circumnavigate the world in a
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In Perth, Bertram was befriended by and stayed with the founder of West Australian Airways,
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mailplane, departing from Wyndham on 13 July. The plane was greeted by a crowd of 6,000 at
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Transcript of interview with Michael McCarthy from the WA Maritime Museum, and George Negus
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Atlantis, A Flight into Hell : the true story of Australia's most bizarre air rescue
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Atlantis Is Missing : A Gripping True Story of Survival in the Australian Wilderness
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The Royal Australian Air Force Association (WA Division) Aviation Heritage Museum
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The Royal Australian Air Force Association (WA Division) Aviation Heritage Museum
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the following day. At midnight on 14 May Bertram and Klausmann left Koepang for
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and the pair departed from there on 13 May, stopping for fuel at a bay near
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and about 370 kilometres (230 mi) south-west of Melville Island.
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on 15 May and were forced to land in a remote coastal area of the
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mail plane was chartered for the purpose. Coastal ships from the
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Harrison-Ford, Carl; Hudson, Michael J; Bertram, Hans (1985).
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Their engine was overhauled in the Dutch naval aerodrome in
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seaplane (float configuration), registration D-1925, named
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Aviation accidents and incidents caused by fuel exhaustion
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attempting to swim across an inlet they were chased by a
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After convalescing in Wyndham, both men were taken to
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on 17 April 1933 where he received a hero's welcome.
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The makeshift canoe was recovered by staff from the
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Over ten weeks, the group successfully flew through
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Index

Adolph Klausmann

Koepang
Cape St Lambert
14°20′1.2″S 127°46′45.4″E / 14.333667°S 127.779278°E / -14.333667; 127.779278
Junkers W 33
Registration
Cologne
Germany
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
Persia
India
Ceylon
Burma
Thailand
Malaya
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
Dutch Timor
Koepang
Darwin

Timor Sea

Hans Bertram
Junkers W 33

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