ACCIDENT TO SEAPLANE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 358, 28 March 1922, Page 7

ACCIDENT TO SEAPLANE.

DESCENT INTO THE SEA. NEW VDDK, March 25. A report from Miami, Florida, stales Iha i a passenger seaplane tell into die sea, live passengers being drowned. Ihe pilot. Moore, was rescued. F miller reports slate I hat on Wednesday die boat overturned, Moore and one passenger then clinging to the wreckage. Finally, the passenger, too weak to hold on, handed his money to Moore and slid into die sea. Moore hung on till Friday night, when he was picked up by a tanker, nine vessels having in the meantime passed by without seeing him. haler, on rite arrival of the tanker at Miami, a iragic story was revealed. Mooie was incoherent alter regaining consciousness, bm his sialenienis. pieced together, show dial die seaplane left Miami on Wednesday, bound for Rimini, carrying two married couples and another woman. On Wednesday morning the propeller broke and die plane descended into the sea and drifted till Thursday, the passengers cling; mg to the w reck. On I hursday morning ihe hull began to leak and the passengers began pumping frantically. On, 'lhursday eight one woman jumped overboard, her Inlsband following, and both were drowned. Then the two other women were washed overboard and disappeared, leaving one man and the pilot.—A. and N./. cable.