MISSING AMBULANCE PLANE
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE RECEIVED MELBOURNE, December 30. A Dakota ambulance plane carrying 16 hospital patients, a medical, orderly, and a crew of four, has been missing between Ambon in the Celebes and Darwin since December 20. The plane left Ambon at 11.50 a.m., and was due in Darwin by mid-afternoon. , No word has been received from the aircraft since it left Ambon, unless a mysterious message picked up by the naval signal station at Darwin was from it. This message from an unknown direction was: “ Alive-—all alive.” The search for the missing Dakota is continuing.
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Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 6
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97MISSING AMBULANCE PLANE Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 6
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