SIX FLIERS FEARER DEAD
BRITISH COLUMBIA SEARCH
TWO PLANES DISAPPEARED
COAST SHROUDED IN MIST
SOUGHT BY SEA AND AIR
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Vancouver, Nov. 4.
Two planes and six men lost in northern British Columbia are being searched for by a fleet of planes cooperating with six Government fisheries patrol vessels. i Captain E. J. Bourke, Vancouver, who was flying with two .prospectors to the Liard mining post, disappeared on October 12.
Captain Pat Renahan, Vancouver, hopped off to search with two mechanics on October 28, but vanished after leaving Prince Rupert. The coast was shrouded in fog 'for a fortnight.
.The Government vessels are systematically sweeping the whole coast. Bourke and his companions are feared to be dead as, if alive, they could have reached Civilisation easily in the time that- has elapsed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1930, Page 9
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