S.A.S. Men Search For Crashed Aircraft
(Rec. 7 p.m.) KUALA LUMPUR. March 3. A patrol of the Special Air Services Regiment has been unable to fight their way through tangled jungle today to the spot where seven Royal Air Force men died yesterdav in the flaming wreckage of their Valetta transport aircraft. The patrol, diverted by wireless from an anti-Communist operation, has been battling all day against some of the world’s densest jungle country to reach the spot on a jungle ridge where the wrecked aircraft was sighted early this morning. Last hopes that any of the men had survived faded when the patrol radioed its Kuala Lumpur base saying it was making camp only 60 yards from the wreckage, adding the terse message. “No sign of life.”
The patrol, which was in dangerous Communist country, will make a detailed examination of the wrecked aircraft tomorrow.
An R.A.F. spokesman said that an inquiry into the crash, the cause of which is unknown, has been ordered. Names of the crew would not be released until the next-of-kin have been notified.
The aircraft ‘crashed near the Blue Valley tea estate in a remote area of the Cameron highlands while on a routine supply dropping mission.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27909, 5 March 1956, Page 11
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