MISSING AIR LINER
BELIEVED TO BE LOST THE SEARCH ABANDONED (omciai Wirelessi (Received March 8, 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY, March 7 Imperial Airways has officially announced that the search for the air liner Hannibal has been abandoned, and it is feared that she has been lost at sea and there are no survivors of the four passengers and crew of four. The statement makes it clear that the wreckage seen by the Horsa proved not to be that of the Hannibal, and concludes: “The accident brings to an end a proud record. Of eight Handley Page 42 air liners used by Imperial Airways, although between them they carried several hundred thousand passengers, not one passenger had suffered injury or loss of life.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21057, 8 March 1940, Page 6
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121MISSING AIR LINER Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21057, 8 March 1940, Page 6
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