NEW ’PLANE MISSING
WITH NINE PERSONS In Californian Ranges (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 18, 6.55 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, May 18. A Lockheed transport ’plane, engaged on its maiden flight, and carrying nine persons, including four women and two children, to the city of St. Paul, is missing. For hours the ’plane has been missing, and it is believed to have crashed on a mountain side.
Search parties went out, but have been compelled to desist, owing to bad weather.
FURTHER DETAILS.
WELLINGTON, May 18. Regarding the missing ’plane, reported by cable, Messrs Brown and Dureau, Ltd., local agents for the Lockheeds, say that they have been advised from America, that the ’plane disappeared, in mountains, while on delivery to North West Airlines, with nine occupants.
The message stated that the weather was good at the takeoff, and at the destination, but local fogs in the mountains were undoubtedly the cause of the ’plane’s disappearance.
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Grey River Argus, 19 May 1938, Page 7
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