FAINT GLEAM OF HOPE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 17th March. . A gleam of hope for tho'missing Atlantic flyers, Captain Hincheliffe and Miss MacKay, afforded by the statement that a largo airplane was seen flying on Thursday morning over wooded country near Groenville, Maine, about fifty .miles from tho Canadian border, and appeared to descend thero. A. search-is being made at the instance of the State Department' at Washington. Apart from this, hope is virtually J abandoned. There is still a slight possibility of tho flyers having been picked up by a ship without wireless. The liner Majestic, which reached Cherbourg yesterday from New York, reported that on Tuesday when tho'flight began a sharp look-out was kept for tho flyors, but no airplano was seen. Tho woather was very bad, and thero was a snowstorm. In the storm Ilinchclifl'e's machine- might have been forced down into the ocean.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 66, 19 March 1928, Page 9
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