FATAL AIR ACCIDENT
BODIES NOT YET RECOVERED
HEAVY FOG HAMPERS OBSERVATIONS
Attempts to • recover the bodies of the two cadet pilots, P. H. Callahan and H. L. J. Sarjeant, who were killed on Wednesday when the Harvard aircraft they were flying dived into the sea off Birdlings Flat, were abandoned yesterday because of heavy fog. If conditions are favourable this morning two launches will leave Akaroa for the scene of the crash, and a diver from the Lyttelton Harbour Board will attempt to recover the sunken aircraft.
Aircraft which have patrolled the area where the Harvard is believed to have crashed reported yesterday that oil was still rising to the surface near the marking buoy dropped by a launch on Wednesday afternoon.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26093, 21 April 1950, Page 8
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122FATAL AIR ACCIDENT Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26093, 21 April 1950, Page 8
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