N.Z. PILOT MISSING IN CRASH
LOSS OF FLYING-BOAT AT BAHREIN
LONDON, Aug. 24. The first officer, Captain G. W. Alington. of Invercargill, is missing and presumed dead from the British Overseas Airways Corporation Plymouth Class flying-boat which crashed at Bahrein yesterday. The 8.0A.C. has stated that five are dead, five are missing, presumed dead, and 12 were injured. The flying-boat, which was bound from Hong Kong to England, crashed into the sea when landing at Bahrein early on Saturday. [Captain Alington, a son of Mr and Mrs R. G. Alington. Ashburton, was closely associated with the boy and
rover scout movement throughout the Dominion, before he joined the Air Force in 1940. He received his early training at Wigram and Harewood and was then posted to a bomber squadron in England in 1940. He carried out a number of operational flights in both the European and Mediterranean theatres of war, before he was transferred on loan to the British Overseas Airways Corporation in 1942. Until early this year ne was engaged on the Durban-Cairo service, and a few months ago was transferred to flyingboats operating between London and Hong Kong.J
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25272, 26 August 1947, Page 7
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