FOUND ON OCEAN BED
WRECKAGE OF AEROPLANE OFF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HONOLULU, Dec. 18. (Received Dec. 19, at 10 p.m.) A Filipino fisherman who was diving to recover nets found the wreckage of an / aeroplane partly buried in ocean sand 20 feet below the surface, 38 miles north-west from Honolulu. The wreckage, which was identified by the Navy as that of a commercial machine of the old type, will be salvaged to-mor-row. It is believed that it is possibly Flight-lieutenant Ulm's or one of the three planes that disappeared in the 1927 Dole race.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23687, 20 December 1938, Page 11
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94FOUND ON OCEAN BED Otago Daily Times, Issue 23687, 20 December 1938, Page 11
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