AIRMEN TO RESCUE.
MACHINE FALLS INTO SEA. LONDON, Oct, 14. A swift drama attended the inauguration of the llying-boat service bqtween thq Channel Islands and Southampton. Captain Biard, who was carrying four passengers to Soutlpunpton, saw Captain Bailey's Sea Eagle machine, which carried no, passengers, fait into a rough sea off Alderney. Biard dropped to lend assistance, and tho waves hurled his terrified passengers like peas around the wrecked cabin. Biard struggled heroically to The fate of Captain Bailey and his mechanic is uncertain. SAFE, LQNDQN, Oct. 15. .A motor boat rescued Captain Bailey and his maohanic, whose flying boat fell into the rough .sea off Alderney, while they were flying from the Channel Islands to Southampton.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 848, 27 October 1923, Page 11
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