PLUNGE INTO OCEAN
RESCUE PLANE
PATIENT AND TWO PILOTS PERISH
(Independent Cable Service.)
(Received July 17, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, July 16.
Three Jives were lost and five pei--sons were rescued when a coastguard seaplane on a flight of mercy to bring ashore a si*ik sailor crashed into the
The plane, with its crew of six, was dispatched from New York at the urgent request of the oceanographic survey schooner Atlantis, which is 150 miles off the coast, and which reported that one ol those on board was critically ill with pneumonia. The plane lauded alongside the vec^el and transferred the sick man, but in attempting to take off again a pontoon struck a wave, causing the plane to plunge nose first into the ocean.
The pilot, the co-pilot, and the patient were drowned. Tw.j coastguardsmen suffered broken backs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 9
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