PLANE DIVES DOWN WITH SIX PASSENGERS
TWO HATS AND OIL FLOATING ON SLA TELL TRAGIC STORY (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) fAustralian and N.Z Pres.-* Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Sunday. A big commercial seaplane with four passengers and two pilots left Victoria for Vancouver on Saturday morning, and is missing. It is feared that owir»T to a heavy fog it headed right into the water and sank immediately. Commander Price, with a navy seaplane. searched and found a large oil spot, but no trace of the plane. The flight normally takes hour. Another message says two hats have been seen floating on the water. The passengers were a man who is believed to be Mr. Alexander McCallum Scott, a barrister and a former Liberal member of the British House of Commons, his wife, and also Mr. Thomas Lake, Far-Eastern manager of the Union Oil Company of California, and Dr. D. B. Holden, of Victoria.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 443, 27 August 1928, Page 9
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