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Air And Sea Search
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 30.
A sea and air search was intensified off the Welsh coast today for a secret British nuclear bomber which vanished nine days ago while on a test flight from Boscombe Down Royal Air Force station in southern England. The search by a Shackleton reconnaissance plane and R.A.F. marine craft, was stepped up after two fragments of the aircraft were washed up on a Welsh beach.
Another piece of wreckage was found earlier this week.
Army and R.A.F. men also today searched the Welsh coastline for possible wreckage. Four naval frigates will join the hunt. R.A.F. experts have already examined the three fragments found, but further pieces are neded to build up a “jigsaw” which may explain the plane’s disappearance.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 11
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