CRASH INTO SEA
COASTGUARD AIRCRAFT MERCY FLIGHT TRAGEDY THREE DROWNED, TWO HURT Independent Cable Service (Received July 1«, 8.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 10 Three lives were lost and five men were rescued when a coastguard seaplane crashed on a flight to bring ashore a sick sailor. The seaplane, with a crew of six, was despatched from New York at the urgent request of the oceanographie survey schooner Atlantis, which was 150 miles off the coast, and which reported that a member of the crew was critically ill with pneumonia. The seaplane landed alongside the vessel and transferred, the sick man, but in attempting to take off, a pontoon struck a wave, causing the seaplane to plunge nose first into the ocean. The pilot, co-pilot and patient were drowned, and two of the coastguardsmen suffered broken backs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23400, 17 July 1939, Page 11
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