PLANE CRASHES INTO SEA
PILOT BALES OUT FRUITLESS SEARCH (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 5. " Flying-officer Alfred Percy Fogerty is reported missing as the result of an accident during a training flight last Saturday morning. Although ■ the Corsair aircraft piloted by "Fogerty was not flying in company with other aircraft at the time of the mishap, ,it was observed by other pilots in the vicinity to crash into the., sea. The pilot, however, managed to bale out and landed in the sea off Waiheke Island, 20- miles' from Auckland. Immediate searches by sea and air were instituted,, but no trace of the pilot has so far been found.
Pilot-officer Fogerty's father is Mr A. G. Fogerty, of Auckland.
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Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 4
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116PLANE CRASHES INTO SEA Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 4
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