AEROPLANE LOST IN AUSTRALIAN DESERT.
AIR FORCE MACHINE LEAVES FOR SEARCH. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 2. The aviator, Captain W. Pittendrugh, and a mining expert, S. ITamre, are still missing in Central Australia. They had several gallons of water with them, but not much food. Captain Pittendrugh was totally unfamiliar with the country, and there is not a solitary homestead within hundreds of miles. An Air Force aeroplane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Eaton, left Alice Springs to-day to search the whole of the Ibilba Plain. Grave fears are felt for the safety of an air pilot. Captain W. Pittendrugh, and a mining expert, S. Hamre, who have been missing in an arid part of Central Australia for twelve days. They were engaged in mineral exploration, and left Alice Springs on December 20 to join other members of the party camped 300 miles away at Ibilba. They were last seen by local aborigines flying well off their course. Captain Pittendrugh is a British pilot who was more recently an instructor in aviation at Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney, while Hamre is a resident of Petersham, Sydney. Search 'planes have left for the scene.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1
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