FLYING TRAGEDIES
FATAL ATTEMPT ON LONGDISTANCE RECORD BODIES OF ENGLISH AIRMEN (Rec. December 27, 8 p.m.) Paris, December 26. The bodies of Jones, Williams and Jenkins have been landed at Marseilles and are being carried overland in a special coach. Costes, whose record the airmen attempted to beat, is going to England to attend the funeral. ITALIAN POSTAL ’PLANE WRECKED FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS (Rec. December 2T, 8.55 p.m.). Athens, December 27. An Italian postal seaplane, with a crew of five, was wrecked on Christmas Eve near the Island of St. Eustatios,' near the Turkish coast, in the Aegean. The Greek cruiser Helle failed to find the machine or the crew. Other ’planes are being despatched. The search is continuing, but little hope is felt for the recovery of the missing airmen, [ FRENCH FLYERS’ BODIES FOUND ATTEMPT TO REACH INDOCHINA Paris, December 26. The Air Ministry has been unofficially advised that the bodies of the three flyers, Victor Joseph Lasalle, Marcel Rebard, and Raymond Saltot, have been found on the Libyan coast by Italian airmen, who reported that the bodies were found in the wreckage of the ’plane. The Italian authorities will recover them and return them to French custody. The airmen left Tunis on December 15, en route for French Indo-China from Le Bourget.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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215FLYING TRAGEDIES Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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