Doomed at the North Pole: Where did the Airship Italia Vanish?

Rindfleisch
Published on May 25, 2021
The wreckage of the massive Airship Italiaâ€™s cabin lay strewn across the frozen tundra, along with nine men from its crew, some in critical condition. Meanwhile, the aircraftâ€™s balloon component, loosed from the cabin by the impact of the crash, drifted away in the violent Arctic wind with several of crewmembers still aboard. The airshipâ€™s captain, the Italian pilot and General Umberto Nobile, lay helpless on the large ice pack, having just moments before watched the crash through a porthole window in the Italiaâ€™s cabin. His arm and leg were broken, and he felt a tightness in his chest, assuming he was done for.

The other survivors who were healthy enough to walk scavenged the crash site for supplies, and miraculously located two pre-packed survival kits and the small wireless transmitter they had brought along in case they needed to broadcast a distress signal back to Norway, where they had launched from. Using the materials they recovered - food, tents, weapons, and warm clothes - the survivors from the shipâ€™s cabin set up a small camp and hunkered down to rest and prepare for the long haul on the drifting ice pack as they waited for rescue from their doomed attempt to reach the North Poleâ€¦

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