IN DISTRESS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 September 1927, Page 5

IN DISTRESS

’PLANE OLD GLORY. FORCED DOWN AT SEA. LINERS’ FRUITLESS SEARCH. a* CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.40 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Sept! 7. The monoplane Oldi Glory broadcast an S.O.S. early this morning. It is believed the ’plane was forced down in the sea at a point between 700 and 900 miles eastward and slightly north of Newt ou ndiand. Two Cunard liners, the Transylvania and Car-mania, swung off their courses in an endeavour to reach ttie ’plane. The airmen sent numerous messages reporting progress before the 5.0.5., hut none luive since been received. Therefore there is .scant hope that they are still in ttie air. The Caimania’s position was about 170 miles from the ’plane when the distress call was received, and the Transylvania was about 83 miles. Mr. Fokker, builder of the Old Glory, estimates tbat.it will keep afloat for several hours with the tanks emptied. The latest report stated' that the Transylvania had reached' the position given by the Old Glory and. searched 1 a 30-mile area, hut without success. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The Old Glory was sighted 350 miles ea.st of St. Johns, Newfoundland, at midnight on Tuesday. The ’plane l was reported to be proguessing favourably 100 miles an hour over Newfoundland. Earlier despatches radioed bv Bertrand, complained that the situation would have to be remedied owing to petrol consumption. Philip Payne, a New York pressman. leaped aboard the ’plane at the departure, being carried as a passenger. VANCOUVER, Sept. 7. A later message stated that the Radio Corporation of _ America, announced at 4 o’clock this (Wednesday) morning the receipt of radios from the ■steamers Carmania and Lapland that the vessels had received S.O.S. calls from the Old Glory. The positions were not announced. The New York steamer Transylvania radios that she is 83 miles from the Old Glory and is heading for the ’ plane.

’PLANE AND CREW BELIEVED . TO BE LOST. Received .10.25 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Mr John Harman, a journalist aboard the Transylvania, radios: "There is now every reason to believe that- Old Glory and its crew are lost. No word has been received from nor any trace found of the missing ’plane since this morning, when the S.O.S. was picked up in mid-Atlantic. Since the S.O.S. was received Captain Bono has been making a close search of the spot where the ’.plane was last heard from, without result.”