FOUR PLANES LOST
DRAMATIC EPIC OF THE AIR AMERICAN SERGEANT DROWNED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. HONOLULU, May 10. A dramatic epic of the air and the sea was recounted to-dav when an interisland steamer arrived with the survivors of a sensational aerial accident during military, naval, and air manoeuvres that resulted in the drowning of a non-commissioned officer and the loss of four aoropla* s. Forty-six machines participated in the exercises, and while Hying between Onhuamaui and Hawaii, an Air Corps sergeant and three other members of the crew attempted to leave a disabled bomber I,oooft in the air, but the shrouds of the former’s parachute became entangled in the plane’s rigging, taking him with it to the bottom of the sea. A convoy of planes settled on the huge seas that were running in efforts to save the survivors. Rescue vessels picked up the occupants of the convoy machines, whicn, after rescuing the bombors’s crew, drifted helplessly for many hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 20486, 17 May 1930, Page 15
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161FOUR PLANES LOST Evening Star, Issue 20486, 17 May 1930, Page 15
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