MISSING AIRLINER
Search Now Abandoned (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7 Imperial Airways lias officially announced that tlic search for the airliner Hannibal has been abandoned. It is feared that she was lost at sea and that there were no survivors of the four passengers and the crew of four. The statement makes it clear that the wreckage seen by the Horsa proved not to be that of the Hannibal and concludes: “The accident brings to an end the proud record' of the eight Handley Page 42 airliners used by Imperial Airways, though between them they carried several hundred thousand passengers not one passenger had suffered injury or loss of life.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 141, 9 March 1940, Page 12
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111MISSING AIRLINER Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 141, 9 March 1940, Page 12
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