CHANCES SLIGHT.
Practically No Hope For Two American Flyers. FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC. LONDON, August 14.
The Admiralty announces that hope has been practically abandoned for the two American airmen, Alex Loeb, aged 32, and Dick Decker, 23, who, announcing their destination as Ireland, took off from Point Michaud beach, Nova Scotia, on Friday at 9 a.m. (Eastern standard time) in a Ryan monoplane, carrying 350 gallons of petrol. The flyers should have arrived about noon yesterday. Ships have been warned to keep a look-out for them, but the only hope is that they have been picked up by a ship without wireless. Loeb and Decker remarked prior to their departure that they were friends of Douglas Corrigan, the airman who said he took the wrong way and landed in Ireland, and that he had given them many valuable pointers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 9
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