THE LOST FLIERS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 104, 27 May 1929, Page 3

THE LOST FLIERS.

STRANDED AT CAPE DON. DISCOVERED BY PILOT BRAIN. MACHINE DAMAGED. . Wireless messages broadcast by 4QG last evening announced that the missing’ fliers Moir and Owen, who were lost on the last lap of theii flig’ht to Australia, had been discovered stranded at Cape Don, which is 105 miles north-west of Darwin. The message stated that Pilot Brain had returned Darwin and reported that he had located Moir and Owen uninjured at Cape Don, on the Coburg- Peninsula. He added that theii machine was slightly damaged. The men are being cared for by the staff of the lighthouse at Cape Don. Flight-Lieutenant James Moir and Flying-Otticer Harold Owen, who were engaged in a flight from England to Australia, left Bima on Saturday morning, May 18th, for Darwin, but had not been reported since, and grave anxiety was felt for their safety. The airmen left Lympne aerodrome, Kent, on March 18th, but were delayed for some weeks in Egypt owing to the machine being damaged in a forced landing. Since the resumption of the flight from Mersa Matruh the airmen had made good progress to Bima.