Word: muroton
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...again for Nemuro. This time the plane stayed up for half the distance to Nemuro when a radio message from Anne Lindbergh was picked up by the Ochishi radio station. It said: "Unknown where we are because of fog" and asked what was the best place to come down. "Muroton Bay'' (where Japanese Aviator Seiji Yoshihara recently cached gasoline while trying to fly to the U.S.) was the answer. The Lindberghs looped back but failed to reach Muroton Bay and landed instead on the lee side of Ketoi, a volcanic, sparsely vegetated dot among inhospitable Kurile Islands...
There was fog in the morning and he planned to taxi the 15 miles to Muroton, wait there for clearer weather. When he tried to start, he found carburetor trouble, tied the plane to the Shimushiru and tried to repair it. His efforts were unsuccessful. Finally it was necessary to tie the plane to the ship and tow it. Even this was a failure. The towline broke, the plane was saved ,only by the agile efforts...
Colonel and the Shimushiru's crew who were described as being animated by "the indomitable spirit of the flyer himself." At Muroton, the Colonel worked on his motor till late in the evening, spent the rest of the night on a government fox farm whose three guards are the only inhabitants of Shimushiru Island. In the morning the Lindberghs rose at 5 o'clock, finally got the motor going and took off, from the quiet cliff-enclosed harbor, for Nemuro...
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