OVERDUE ’PLANE.
DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT. ST. RAPHAEL SIGHTED. Received September 3, 1.30 p.m. . LONDON, Sept. 3. British air experts hold out no hope for the St. Raphael.
A dramatic announcement was issued by the Air Alinistry at midnight that it had received a message from the steamer Josiali McKeys to the effect that the aeroplane passed overhead at a point hall-way across the Atlantic in a direct line with North Scotland.
The Josiah Mac Kay’s report is the first news of any kind regarding the St. Raphael, 56 hours after its departure. The general opinion, is that it renders the position more hopeless. Experts endorse the Canadian belief that the ’plane has not crossed Newfoundland and consider the chance of the aviators being picked up by steamer without wireless very remote, each, hour making the possibility more remote. Public opinion is turning against such hazardous east-to-west attempts which are infinitely more difficult than west-to-east.
Captain Garro Jones,' M.P., late advisory officer to the United States Air Service, points out that it has been proved that Atlantic winds 2000 feet up are relatively stronger than at the sea level and that the aviators might be confined to a zone wholly unobserved by ships.—Australian and New Zealand cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 2
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