PLANE IN SEA
SPEEDBOAT TO THE RESCUE. MELBOURNE, June 10. A speedboat dashed from Point Cook training school to-day and rescued Cadet Carl R. Kelaher, when an Avro training aeroplane of the Royal Australian Air Force was (forced dow about three-quarters of a' mil© "from the shore'.
The speedboat found Kelaher uninjured and sitting on the machine, which was floating in deep-water. ' The engine of the machine, which was one of several used on a training flight, cut out while it was 2000. feet, over Port Phillip Bay.
It was towed into shallow water, and will be salvaged to-morrow.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1936, Page 6
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