AIRLINER MISSING BOUND FOR MELBOURNE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 9

AIRLINER MISSING

BOUND FOR MELBOURNE

FLYING FROM TASMANIA

TWELVE ABOARD

United Tress .Association—By Electric Tele-

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MELBOURNE, October IS),

A Tasmanian mail and passenger aeroplane which left for Melbourne, today is missing. It is feared that sho has fallen into the sea in Bass Strait.

Tho Miss lloburt is a f our-enginerl de Havilland under contract to tho Commonwealth Government and engaged in the Hobart-Launceston-Melbourne mail and passenger service. She left Launceston in the morning and was expected at Essendon by noon, but has not yet arrived nor has she been reported from any landing grounds en route. The personnel consisted of the chief pilot, Captain V. Holyman; assistant pilot, Mr. Gilbert Jenkins; Mr. and Mrs. Colin Jones and child, Mr. and Mrs. Drummond, Miss K. Mercer, the Rev. H. E. Warren, Messrs. R. Caldwcll, 8. Quon, and Gourlay.

Tho Miss Eobart is the first-dc Havilland 80 in Australia, and was only recently assembled. Sho has accommodation for twelve passengers and luggage. According to Vacuum Oil Company advices, her owners, Holyman's Airways, formerly Tasmanian Aerial Services, liavo been running an unsubsidiscd scrvico between Launcestou and Melbourne, calling at King Island and Flinders Island on alternative trips', and for this service a Dragon Moth has been usod until recently. The company has a sister craft to Miss Hobart on order.