NATION IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Icebound Aircraft in Good Condition

Explorers shimmied through a 42-inch hole to poke around one of eight icebound World War II aircraft in southeastern Greenland for the first time, expedition officials said. Richard Taylor, who is supervising the the Greenland Expedition Society’s effort to recover the planes, radioed the society’s suburban Atlanta headquarters: “We have been down to the plane and gotten inside it. Its condition is good and just as we all hoped it would be.” The B-17 bomber is one of eight U.S. planes that crash-landed on the Greenland icecap on July 15, 1942. They ran out of fuel en route to Europe after being given false radio transmissions by German submarines. The crews survived.