AUSTRALIAN NEWS
AN AVIATOR MISSING FRUITLESS SEARCH BY PLANES SYDNEY, Dec. 14. (Received Dec. 14, at 11.15 p.m.) The Air Force weather pilot, who ascends 20,000 feet every day to make meteorological observations in a single-seater Bulldog Fighter, went up as usual at 8.15 this morning, and at 6 p.m. was still unheard of Observations usually take an hour. All afternoon nine Air Force planes searched in vain, and no ground reports have been received. Owing to rain and mist, visibility was very bad all day. The pilot was Pilot-officer Eric Vernon Read, who was a cadet at Point Cooke flying school until recently.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23064, 15 December 1936, Page 9
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