FIVE MISSING IN AIR FORCE PLANE: LITTLE HOPE HELD
MELBOURNE, This Day (Rec. 11.30 a.m.).—An R.A.A.F. plane with a crew of five have been missing since 2.30 p.m. yesterday, and an Air Board spokesman said that the R.A.A.F. held out little hope for the plane’s safety. R.A.A.F. planes searched until a late hour last night and will continue today. The missing plane is a twin-engined Avro Anson, which took off from the East Sale R.A.A.F. station on a twohour cross-country training flight.
t The airfield has received no message from«the aircraft since it left.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1949, Page 5
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