SEARCH FOR AIRCRAFT
Ships Find No Trace
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) HONOLULU. November 12. The aircraft carrier, Philippine Sea, flanked by 15 other ships, followed the flight path of the missing Pan American stratocruiser in a “vacuum cleaner’’ [search today for a trace of the [aeroplane which vanished with 44 persons aboard last Friday. ■ The surface vessels, stationed 15 miles apart in a 200-mile line. I moved slowly down the last I known route of the missing airliner as aircraft, including helicopters and jets, flew overhead. . Hopes of finding any of the '.missing persons alive were fading '.fast and Commander William E. Chapline, the Coast Guard search i chief, said last night’s search operations again failed to produce i“a single concrete clue.’’
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 18
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