MISSING FOR NINE YEARS
FLYERS FOUND TO BE
“ABSENT”
PARIS, Jan. 20.
A court ruled to-day that. Captain Charles Nungosscr, lost nearly' nine, years ago in an attempted trails Atlantic flight, w/is not legally dead but was merely “absent.” The ruling was made when creditors sought to collect from his estate a payment for cars sold to the famous aviator w’hen he was an automobile dealer. (The suit, was thrown out, the judges ruling that 30 years must, pass before Nungcsser legally can be considered dead.
Captain Nungcsser set out on May S, 1927, from Paris with his close friend, Captain Francis Coli, in an effort to reach New York non-stop. Nothing more was ever heard from them.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18956, 5 March 1936, Page 11
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