PASSENGERS BAIL OUT
25 SAFE; 1 MAN KILLED PLANE'S FUEL EXHAUSTED f 10.15 a.m.) MANILA, Sept. 21. A report from Manila states that the pilot of a United States Army Dakota aircraft radioed tonight that he had ordered his passengers to bail out “somewhere over Luzon” and was abandoning the aircraft, the fuel supply of which was running out in bad weather. The Dakota carried 27 passengers. Search pilots reported that unidentified wreckage had been located IGO miles north-east of Manila.
A later message states that 25 of the 27 men who parachuted from the plane have been found safe. One person was killed in bailing out and another is still missing.
The Army personnel were members of the Thirteenth Air Force baseball team returning to Luzon from games in Tokyo and Okinawa.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22440, 22 September 1947, Page 6
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