CHANNEL CRASHES.
TWO FRENCH ARMY ’PLANES.. A dramatic double rescue—a rescue party having to be themselves rescued —occurred in the English Channel. During the French fleet and air manoeuvres that were in progress, an army ’plane was forced down in the Channel, and its crew were taken aboard a lifeboat launched from the steamer Dresden. The stormy weather, however, prevented the lifeboat rejoining the steamer, and the five German seamen and four French airmen were tossed about helplessly until a tug from Boulogne came on the scene. After a long struggle, the occupants of the lifeboat were hauled aboard the tug with the aid of ropes. Another French army ’plane dropped' into the Channel, and though the seas moderated the absence of radio messages from the ’plane caused the gravest apprehension. Tugs and cutters left Cherbourg for a spot where wreckage of a ’plane was reported to have been seen drifting.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 7
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151CHANNEL CRASHES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 7
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