MISSING AIRMAN
Feared to Have Been Drowned AEROPLANE WRECKAGE FOUND IN SEA. Calcutta. April 17. The wreckage of an aeroplane was found to-day floating near Chittagong, 200 miles east of here. It is believed to have belonged to Captain Leonida Robbiano, the Italian air ace, who has not been heard from since he left Calcutta at 10.15 p.m. on Friday foi A’ictoria Point, in the course of an England-Anslralia flight. Neither at Akyab nor ACctoria Point is there any knowledge of the Italian’s whereabouts. It is feared that Sic met with an accident in the extremely heavy storms at the weekend in the Bay of Bengal and Burma, and that ho fell into the bay. MISS RATTEN SUFFERING FROM SHOOK. Calcutta, April 17. Miss Jean Batten, the Auckland girl who is attempting to fly to Australia from England, suffered severe shock, necessitating medical aid, when her aeroplane turned a somersault and crashed near Karachi. The reason why the machine could not be dicovered from the air was because friendly Baluchi tribesmen of Bela? fearing the machine would be damaged by the sandstorms that were raging, protected it with camel cloths. They completely camouflaged it, but neglected to cover the engine, into which sand penetrated, causing it to misfire and stop after Miss Batten's departure for Karachi.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11093, 19 April 1933, Page 3
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