MISSING AIRMEN
FATE OF THE AOTEA-ROA CRASH HEARD OH FUNDERS ISLAND SEARCH BEING ORGANISED. Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright. HOBART, January 26. (Received January 27, at 1.30 a.m.) The Flinders Island report concerning the missing aviators is amplified further by the report of tho police officer in charge of the island. He states that throe men said that they heard tho unmistakable hum of an aeroplane, but could not see the machine. A few minutes later they heard a crash and one of then!, who had been in France with the expeditionary force, said; “if that is a ’plane she has fallen. I have heard them crash like that in France.” When it was known that the airmen were missing a search was instituted, but no traces were found. There is a growing feeling that the machine crashed in the low-lying lagoon country to the east of the Darling range, which extends for many miles and is totally uninhabited. Search parties are being organised.
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Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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163MISSING AIRMEN Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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