MISSING BRITISH BOMBER
SEARCH ABANDONED AFTER
THREE DAYS
(Received February 27. 10.10 p.m.)
LONDON, February 27
The Air Ministry has abandoned the search for the missing VickersWellesley bomber. The members of the crew are presumed to be dead. One hundred aeroplanes from dawn to dusk fruitlessly combed the coastal areas.
Officials decided that the only possible explanation of the disappearance was that the machine descended in the sea. The missing aeroplane was last heard of at 7.15 a.m. on Thursday, two miles east of Braemar. It was the second aeroplane to leave Heyford on a round Britain test flight. The first machine successfully completed the flight of 1600 miles m 12 hours. The missing aeroplane had petrol for only 15 hours. The personnel of the missing machine, which had been practising for a long-distance record flight to Australia, comprised an Australian, Flight Lieutenant Gardner, and Sergeant Hicks.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 28 February 1938, Page 11
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