MISSING FLYERS FOUND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 1

MISSING FLYERS FOUND

At Lonely Lighthouse WING OF AIRPLANE BROKEN Pilot Brain Again Succeeds rE missing Australian airmen, Moir and Owen, have been found at a lonely lighthouse about 100 miles from Darwin, in Northern Australia. They had been missing for over a week. Pilot J. L. Brain, who found the Kookaburra plane discovered the stranded flyers. A curious irony is that the steamer Kyogle was on her way a week ago to the lighthouse where the men are when she was ordered to proceed to the Timor Sea in quest’ of the lost flyers. If she had pot been diverted, they would have been found days ago. A wing of the Vickers-Vellore is broken.

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Peed- 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. Fl jht-Lieutenant James Moir and flying-Officer Harold Owen, who have been missing since May 18, have been :ound safe and uninjured on .the north roast of Australia. Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., received advice on Sunday afternoon from its Darwin radio station that Captain Lester J. Brain in the airplane Atlanta left there at 9.30 a.m. to search the coast. He found the Vickers-Vellore biplane at Cape Don, Coburg Peninsula. Moir and Owen were uninjured, but their machine was damaged. The Atlanta’s radio transmitter {ailed shortly after she left Darwin and the only signals received throughout her cruise were broken dashes. It is understood from other information that the stranded airmen are being cared for by the lighthouse staff at Cape Don. The latter is situated 105 miles north-east of Darwin on the mainland at the side of Duudas Strait, ■which separates Melville Island from Australia. Captain Brain returned to Darwin at 4.45 p.m. The slight damage to Moir and Owen’s machine is confined to the light wing. Mr. Robinson, director of station 4QG, Brisbane, who with Mr. Comp ston, mechanic, accompanied Pilot Brain, amplifies earlier message. He states that the right wing of the Vickers-Vellore is broken. Moir and Owen waved to the crew of the Atlanta. Messages were dropped, and the Vellore's men replied by signals that both were unhurt, and that they desired a boat to pick them up as soon as possible. The Atlanta reached Darwin at 12.20 p.m. Amalgamated Wireless. Ltd., reported that 80 minutes before her arrival her radio transmission was indecipherable. It is now learned that the lighthouse steamer Kyogle was on her way to the Cape Don lighthouse last week when she was ordered to search the coast for the missing aviators. The vessel is expected to arrive at Cape Don on Tuesday.