The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-27
GIVEN
CREDIT FOR
SAFE LANDING
Brown and Miller Re-
sponsible for Safe Landing
Plane, Passenger Says

The tri-motored Ford plane, pill
oted by Chester Brown and with
Henry Miller as co-pilot, which left
Cordova last Monday morning for
Juneau with twelve passengers
aboard, and was forced down Mon
day afternoon at Gull Cove on Ida
no Inlet on account of extremely bad
w Their, zoomed over Juneau
Thursday morning at $40 o'clock
and landed at the PAA airport.
The passengers, with their bag
gage, arrived last night aboard the
Coast Guard cutter Morris, having
been transferred from the beach
at Gull Cove to the vessel yeSter-
day morning.
And take it from me, only the
skillful plotting of Chester Brown
and his co-pilot Henry Miller is
responsible for us being here" said
Wallen Forrest, well known Juneau
young man and son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Forrest, one of the plane pas
sengers who was later transferred
to the cutter Morris.
Praise for Pilots
II am telling you that the pilots
of our plane deserve the greatest
of praise continued Forrest. We
were coming toward Juneau, good
flying weather when suddenly, right
ahead was bank of fog and nasty
weather with it. Pilot Brown hastily
looked for place to land. He dis
covered a short beach which proved
to be Gull Cove and down we went.
Listen-that plane landed on the
beach and was stopped within a dis
lance of 48O feet, some feat at that
for a heavy craft and loaded. We
did not bounce, we just came down
and a rear tire blew out. There we
were, safe and sound. Excellent pill
citing, excellent Judgment In land
ing us safely"
Young Forrest then related that
after the tire was fixed and the bad
weather continued, it was certain
the night would be spent right at
the spot they landed. Near there
however are the cabins of Bill Ora
ham and his family and during the
stay of the plane the marooned
party had plenty to eat and were
comfortably housed in cabins or
aboard boat in the cove.
Forrest, who is former attache
of the Juneau Radio office of the
United States Signal Corps and an
amateur radio operator, fixed up q
sending set, with what apparatus
he could find, and attempted to send
to the outside world the news the
plane was down, location and that
all was safe but it failed to pene-
trate to the outside.
Passengers Heard Broadcast
The passengers heard broadcast
ing from KINY and radio phone
conversations through a set on a
small boat in the cove. Finally, last
Wednesday they heard they were
lost, then discovered in Gull Cove
and that the Tallapoosa or Morris
were to make a search for them.
And just about midnight we saw
the lights Of what proved to be the
Morris" said Forrest. "Oh yes, I
forgot to say that we saw Sheldon
Simmons, who was out searching
for us, last Wednesday morning but
we thought the craft was mail
plane. 1t was clear where we were
but it wasn't clear in the offing and
that was the reason we did not take
off in the tri-motored Ford because
lit looked foggy over the course we
would take to Juneau.
Transferred to Morris
well, Thursday morning, Pilot
Brown and co-pilot Miller took off
safely and the passengers and bag
gage were transferred to the Nor
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