At Hornell, N. Y. last week two seagulls flopped helplessly to earth in the business district, their wings so coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature's best flying mechanisms overtook one of Man's best flying mechanisms 200 miles as the gull flies southwest of Hornell. Just outside of Pittsburgh, a twin-motored Douglas DC2 crippled by ice flopped helplessly to earth killing 13 people in 1937's third major air disaster....
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