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The unexpected rescue mission that inspired ABC mini-series Flight into Hell — and other survivalists – ABC News
After hitting a severe storm and faced with dwindling fuel, two German pilots were forced to land their plane on the remote Kimberley coast. What follows next is…
It’s the unlikely tale of survival you’d expect to see on the silver screen, not in the history books.
“When I tell you how the Samaritans of the wilds tended and cared for us,” German aviator Hans Bertram would write years later, “you’ll understand that I wish to bear witness to the greatest and noblest virtue of the human soul charity.”
In 1932, Bertram and fellow pilot Adolf Klausmann set out to circumnavigate the globe in a Junkers seaplane, Atlantis, when they hit a severe storm between Timor…
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