GENERAL CABLE:
'PLANE FALLS INTO THE SEA.
AIRMEN RESCUED
(A and N.Z. Cable. Association.) LONDON, December 18, j Owinig to engine trouble, v Hundley, Page aeroplane, flying to Ireland with a crew of seven men of the. Royal Air Force, descended to the sea fifteen miles from the South Stook Lighthouse. The lighthouse-keeper reported the accident to, Holyhead, from which, wireless Jla.shot! the news to shipping in the Channel. Owing to its careful descent, the aeroplane floate*! for several hours, but tho seas were meanwhile breaking it up. The; creW crawled to . the wings and clung to the cross wire. A steamer rescued -them all a few minutes before the aeroplane sank.
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Grey River Argus, 21 December 1920, Page 3
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