Kingsford Smith’s Fate; Wreckage Identified
("Received 8.30 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 24
The aircraft wreckage found on the southern banks of Aye Island, near Burma, in May, 1937, has been positively identified as portion cf the Lockheed Altaic in which Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr J. T. Pcthybridge disappeared in their last flight to Australia.
This announcement was 'made today by the Minister of Defence. Mr H. V. Thorby, who said the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, at Los Angeles, has positively identified the markings on the oleocylinder of the salvaged undercarriage as being those of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s machine. Investigation of shellfish and marine growth on the wreckage by the zoological departments of Rangoon University had disclosed that the remainder of the wreckage would probably bo found at the bottom of the sea at a depth not exceeding 90 feet, in proximity to the spot where the salvaged material was found. Investigations by the Burmese authorities are proceeding Jn the hope of locating the remaining wreckage.
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Northern Advocate, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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