AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE PLANE MISSING
CREW OF SIX ABOARD BRISBANE, Aug. 13. A Royal Air Force plane with a crew of six is missing off the coast near Brisbane. It was due back at Archerfield air station at 5 p.m. yesterday after exercises at sea. it is hoped the missing machine made a forced landing .on some lonely beach. Other aircraft are searching. Brisbane planes searching for a missing Air Force bomber have reported a large patch of oil on the sea near Stradbroke Island.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 190, 14 August 1940, Page 6
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85AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE PLANE MISSING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 190, 14 August 1940, Page 6
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