MISSING MOTH PLANE.
LIGHTS ON THE ATLANTIC. PROBABLY DISTRESS SIGNALS.
British Wirelcris. LONDON, Oct. 27. Discussion has been aroused by the report that strange lights were seen in the Atlantic on Wednesday night, from the Dutch steamer Mirach, some hours after Commander 11. C. Mac Donald had left Newfoundland iri his Gipsy Moth plane. The position indicated is about 500 miles east of the airman's starting point. He should have been in that area at 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday. There could not have been an explosion in the areoplan > then however, as it was seen at 12.30 a.ra on Thursday from the steamer Ilardonberg. It is now suggested that Mac Donald had already found himself in difllculties at 11.30 p.m. and that he threw out Verey lights as signals of distress. These lights dropped from a height would bo visible a great distance away A mysterious point, if this happened, is that he should have been seen flying an hour later, when apparently all was well with him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 9
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