GHOST AEROPLANE
The Hoylake lifeboat, a speedboat, and an aeroplane from Rhyl, searched the sea off Prestatyn, North Wales, for hours recently for an aeroplane supposed to have fallen in the sea there. This is the third such false alarm in the past few months. The lifeboat cruised over 50 miles. It was out for seven hours. A woman reported to the Prestatyn police that she had seen aeroplane fall in the sea about four miles from the local golf club. The coastguards sent out a speedboat, and a privately-owned aeroplane accompanied it. All they could find was a newly-painted black and white buoy. The Hoylake lifeboat, on request from Rhyl, went out to help. The coxswain, Mr Jones, said: “What the woman must have seen was a large bird which descended suddenly to the water to feed on a school of fish.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 3
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143GHOST AEROPLANE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 3
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