AIRMAN MISSING
FEARS FOR SAFETY FLIGHT FROM AKITIO TO HASTINGS PLANE HEARD (Per United Press Association.) Hastings, July 21. Fears are ■entertained for the safety of Mr Hamish Armstrong, who left his home at Akitio, about 35 miles from Dannevirke towards the coast, at 10 o’clock this morning in a Moth plane bound for Hastings, but has not been seen since. Mr Armstrong should have arrived at Hastings within two hours after leaving home, but no news was received at Hastings aerodrome of his landing anywhere. Residents of Ongaonga. 15 miles inland from Waipukurau, heard a plane pass overhead at 11 o’clock this morning flying towards Hastings, but it was not seen and its description could not be given. A few minutes later a plane was heard over a timber mill situated on the banks of the Makarora river in the Whakarara ranges. The mill is about 10 miles, airline, from Ongaonga towards Hastings. Evidently Mr Armstrong has been forced down in some isolated locality.
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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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