MISSING AIRMEN.
SEARCH FOR AEROPLANE. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. The aviator, Captain Pittendrugh, ant! the mining expert, Mr S. Hamre, are still missing in Central Australia. They had several gallons of water, but not over-much food.
Captain Pittendrugh was totally unfamiliar with the country, and there is not a solitary homestead within hundreds of miles. An. Air Force aeroplane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Eaton, left Alice Springs to-day to search the whole of the Ilbilba Plain.
The missing men were engaged in mineral exploration and left Alice Springs on December 20 to join other members of a. party camped 300 miles awav at Ilbilba. They were last seen by local aborigines flying well off their course. Captain Pittendrugh is a British pilot, more recently instructor in aviation at Mascot, Sydney, while Mr Hamre is a resident of Petersham, Sydney.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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137MISSING AIRMEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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