AIR TRAGEDY AT SEA.
PASSENGER PLANE CRASHES FOUR OCCUPANTS DROWNED. ?• STEAMER . RESCUES FIVE. " ■■' : By 4 Tclcsrapli— Association— Copyright. ', ' .' / -" (Received 4.30 P.m.) A. and N.Z; MIAMI (Florida). Jan. 13. '=■ ,-• - A; passenger. hydroaeroplane flying between/Key West arid' Cuba, sank in mid-- • sea Four of the. 'occupants,' including ■ two children and: a woman/ perished, -and :' five were rescued. /. ; The hydro-aeroplane,, which was equip- j ped -with palatial cabins, .and; Vfaft: callable of ■■ carrying 14 persons, crumpled ; ■ •'." in 'mfi-air, and when it reached. the water j the pontoons, .were able, to' sustain the • craft ifor only a few .minutes. Wireless ."! calls brought a ' Steamer,: which succeeded in rescuing" five, of the nine occupants be- ■ fore the machine, sank. Some of the survivors were injured. -~. /'-■'//
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 8
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120AIR TRAGEDY AT SEA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 8
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