LOST PLANE.
SIX PEOPLE ABOARD. HATS FOUND ON WATER. SEATTLE, August 26. Three men and one woman pass.en ger, and two pilots, are beli?ved to be lost on a plane missing since leaving Victoria for Seattle on Saturday morning. The weathe’- was foggy. Patches of oil and two hats were \een' floating on the water. Th? passengers are a man believed to be Alexander MacCallum Scott, English Member nf Parliament, and a barrister, with his wife, also Thomas Lake, Far Eastern manager of the Union Oil Co. (California), and Dr D. D. Holden (Victoria). SCOTT IDENTIFIED. (Received August 27 at 8 p.m.) (United Service.) VANCOUVER, August 2C. Scott has been definitely identified as a former member of the House of Commons for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow in 1922. lie was visiting Canada for pleasure. There was no trace of the machine late on' Sunday. It is believed that the pilot mistook a heavy fog for a cloudbank., and dived under, struck the water and foundered.
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Grey River Argus, 28 August 1928, Page 5
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166LOST PLANE. Grey River Argus, 28 August 1928, Page 5
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