AIR AMBULANCE CRASHES
five occupants killed Received Monday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 1. Searcli parties found, on the top of a mountain, wreckage of a Royal Naval air ambulance which disappeared during a flight from Scotland to Kent. The five oecupants, including a patient 61 years of age, a naval warrant ofiicer and a doctor, were dead. An earlier message stated that a search was being made for a Royal Naval air ambulance carrying a patient, a suro-eon and a crew of three which left the naval air • station Abbotwinch, near Glasgow, on Friday morning for Rochester, Kent. The Air Ministry says a signal from the ambulance was picked up half an hour after taking off but nothing had been heard of it since. It was to refuel at Stretton, Lancashire.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 September 1946, Page 5
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