NOT ULM’S PLANE
MR SHIEL'S VIEW AIRMAN LOST FAB FROM HONOLULU [Pen United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 21. The cabled message describing the finding of the wreckage of an aeroplane ffß miles from Honolulu, and suggesting that the machine might be that of tne Australian airman, Charles Ulm, was referred to by Mr B. Shiel, of Wellington. who was Ulm’s assistant. Mr Shiel said the fact that the Star of Australia gave her position last when 500 miles from America, and was thereafter unable to find the radio beam, made it unlikely that the wreckage found was that of Ulm’s machine. The radio operator Skilling, did not acknowledge radio messages sent out, hut constantly asked for the beam, which was operating for the whole time of the flight. The hist message from the plane was “ Out of petrol ; landing on water ; come and get ns.” Judging by this signal, the machine was much further away from Honolulu than 38 miles, and the failure of the machine to maintain her position on or near the beam enhanced this probability.
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Evening Star, Issue 23146, 21 December 1938, Page 10
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178NOT ULM’S PLANE Evening Star, Issue 23146, 21 December 1938, Page 10
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