EPIC OF AIR AND SEA
ACCIDENT IN HAWAII PARACHUTIST DROWNED CONVOY’S RESCUE ATTEMPT. (United Press Association —Bv Electric Telegraph llopyrignt. i HONOLULU,. May 16. A dramatic epic of the air and sea was recounted to-day when an interisland steamer arrived with the survivors of an aerial accident during military. and naval air manoeuvres that resulted in the drowning of a non-commissioned officer and the loss ol four aeroplanes. forty-six machines participated in the exercises. While flying between Oahuamaui and Hawaii an Air Corps sergeant and three other members of the crew attempted to leave a disabled bomber when 4000 feet in the air, but the shrouds of the former’s .parachute, became entangled in the ’plane’s rigging, taking him with it to the bottom, of the sea. A convoy of aeroplanes settled on the huge seas that were running in efforts to save the survivors. Rescue vessels picked up the occupants of the convoy machines, which, after rescuing the bomber’s crew, drifted helplessly for many hours.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 17 May 1930, Page 5
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