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MISSING AUSTRALIAN PLANE TWO PILOTS ON BOARD HOBART, Feb. 4. The missing plane is believed to be lost in Bass Strait Weather and visibility were bad. The missing men are Pilot-officer G. K. Buscombe and Sergeant W. H. Gould. PLANE MISSING IN SCOTLAND LONDON, Feb. 3. (Received Feb. 5, at 9 p.m.) A dozen aeroplanes, including Air Force machines, fruitlessly searched a wide area in southern Scotland throughout the day for a De Havilland aeroplane, chartered by the Daily Express for a survey of projected internal air routes throughout Britain. The plane has been missing since it left Renfrew on February 2 for Liverpool. It had four men aboard —namely, the newspaper’s aeronautical correspondent, Harold Pemberton, a photographer, R. C. Wesley, a radio correspondent, T. H. Philpott, who was acting as wireless operator, and the pilot, Leslie Jackson. One of the searching Air Foi’ce machines crashed in the Lanarkshire uplands, the pilot and observer being injured and sent to hospital. The machine was badly damaged. The search will be resumed at dawn.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 9
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