The Nation - News from Feb. 15, 1987
The Arctic Tern’s pilots abandoned their frozen single-engine plane for a jet bound for home, after postponing until spring their attempt to circle the globe from pole to pole. The two pilots, 3,000 miles short of completing their 31,000-mile, record-setting trip, were grounded when the plane’s instruments and engine froze in 60 below zero weather during an emergency stop north of the Arctic Circle. The aircraft was left on an icy runway at Mould Bay, a remote outpost on Prince Edward Island in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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