“MERCY ’PLANE” CRASHES
TRAGEDY AT SEA. NEW YORK, July 16. Three lives .were lost and five persons were rescued when a coastguard seaplane on a mercy flight to bring ashore a sick sailor crashed into the sea. The ’plane, with a crew of six, was dispatched from New A ork at the utgent request of the oceanographic survey senooner Atlantis, which was lot) miles off the coast and which reported that a member was critically ill with pneumonia. . The ’plane landed alongside the vessel and transferred the sick man, but m attempting to take off again a pontoon struck a wave, causing the ’plane to plunge nose first into the ocean. The pilot, co-pilot and patient were drowned, while two constguardsnien suffered broken backs. The Atlantis is a floating laboratory owned by tbe Oceanographic Institute. Two of the five rescued are seriously injured. Tbe patient was a member of tbe Atlantis’ crow and was undergoing treatment in accord nee with wireless instructions from a hospital ashore pending the arrival of the ’plane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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