SEAPLANE DISASTER
CRAFT BREAKS IN MID-AIR. FOUR LIVES LOST. y Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 13. (Received Jan. 14, 11.25 p.m.) A telegram from Miami (blorida) says that the passenger seaplane flying between Key West and Cuba sank in mid-sea. Eater reports show that four neople are dead, including two children and a woman. Eive persons, some of them injured, were rescued. The plane, which was equipped with palatial cabins and was capable of carrying 14 persons, crumpled in mid-air, and when it reached the water its pontoons were able to sustain it only a few minutes. Wireless calls brought a steamer, which succeeded in rescuing live out of the nine passengers before the plane sank. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 5
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