SIGHTING OF RAFT
Report From Pacific (N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) HONOLULU, January 23. The United States Coast Guard launched a search for a raft that was reported sighted in the Pacific area where an Air Force Globemaster with nine persons aboard vanished near Johnston Island on January 2. The United States Air Force emphasised that the reported sighting yesterday was unofficial, and that they were trying to confirm it. An Air Force cargo plane’s crew reported sighting the raft about 250 miles west of Johnston Island. The pilot said a man appeared to be waving on the raft. The area of the raft sighting was reported in the same general area where the Air Force plane disappeared two weeks ago with a crew of eight, a Navy enlisted man and a corpse aboard. The Navy man was escorting the body of a comrade home from Tokyo.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30348, 25 January 1964, Page 4
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146SIGHTING OF RAFT Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30348, 25 January 1964, Page 4
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