The unexpected rescue mission that inspired ABC mini-series Flight into Hell — and other survivalists – ABC News

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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