MISSING AIRCRAFT
Search Now Abandoned
The search for the two Lockheed Hudsou bomber reconnaissance aircraft with 14 members of the R.N.Z.A.F. aboard, reported missing last Tuesday on a transit flight the previous Sunday between Fiji and New Zealand, was abandoned on Friday night. The Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, said on Saturday that an inquiry into the circumstances of the unfortunate occurrence was pjoceeding. Most of the personnel on board the two planes were from Auckland, there being only two from Wellington—Pilot Officer K. A. Ross and Flying Officer J. T. Waugh. Pilot Officer Rosss mother lives in Brougham Street. Mrs. E. Waugh, “Murrayheld I 1 hits. Tinakori Road, is the wife of Flying Ofhcer 'Waugh, who before joining the Air F'orce was a well-known Dlinisteriul secretary. He also leaves a son and a daughter—Sergeant Pilot J..D. 'Waugh, who received his “wings” a few days before his father was reported missing, and Miss Barbara Waugh.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 284, 28 August 1944, Page 4
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155MISSING AIRCRAFT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 284, 28 August 1944, Page 4
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