TRAGEDY FEARED
AIR LINER IN SEA 30 PASSENGERS CARRIED CRASH OFF MADEIRA WARSHIP TO THE RESCUE py Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 14 The Admiralty stated early this morning that aircraft-carrier Furious was steaming at full speed from the Canary Islands to the rescue of an unidentified air liner with 30 passengers on board, which is reported to have dived into the sea off Punta Delgada. The Furious was at Teneriffe when she picked up S.O.S. messages from the doomed machine just before she crashed. Punta Delgada is on the north coast of Madeira which lies roughly 375 miles north of the Canary. Islands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 13
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