BODY RECOVERED.
VICTIM OF AIR DISASTER.
(United Press Association—Copyright. ) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day.
Buoyed up by a partly-inflated lifejacket, the body of Pilot-Officer Charles Houston, one of the two occupants of the ’plane that was missing, was found floating near Point Cook. No trace of Ernest Hyde was found..
A report published on Friday stated: 'An Air Force seaplane containing two pilot-officers, Ernest Hyde, aged 20, and Charles Houston, aged 23, which was last seen skimming the sea near Rye shortly before noon yesterday, has not been seen since. Searching ’planes found a large patch of’ oil on the sea eight miles from Point Cook, and Air 1 Force officers think this marks the place where the ’plane plunged into the water.
On Saturday it. was cabled that two fishermen reported that. they saw' a ’plane crash into the sea three miles from Point Cook at. noon op ,Thursday. n 1 rnm mmm
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 245, 28 July 1937, Page 5
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157BODY RECOVERED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 245, 28 July 1937, Page 5
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