HOPE ABANDONED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 264, 4 August 1936, Page 9

HOPE ABANDONED

Missing Jersey Airways Plane WRECKAGE FOUND ON REEF (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 1. It is feared that 10 lives have been lost on board the British air-liner Cloud of lona, which left Guernsey last night and was due at Jersey 20 minutes later. It is thought that the machine may have made a forced landing on the sea. Guernsey and Jer sey lifeboats kept up a search all night, with tlie help of several vessels in the neighbourhood, and at dawn two Royal Air Force machines joined in the search. A squadron of Royal Air Forces flying-boats, assisted by a number of French aircraft and numerous civil aircraft and ships, later engaged in a widespread search for the missing air-liner, which belonged to Jersey Air ways, but no trace was found. In Jersey it is now felt that’ no further hope can be entertained for the machine or its occupants. Jersey Airways officials can advance no theory as to the cause of the accident.

A later message from Jersey states that searching aeroplanes discovered the wreckage of an aeroplane on Minquier Reef, due south of Jersey. There was no sign of the occupants. The search has now been discontinued.