Plane With 30 Children Aboard Lost: Widespread Search Begins

Chronicle (Levin), 22 November 1949, Page 5

Plane With 30 Children Aboard Lost: Widespread Search Begins

Received Tuesday, 9.25 a.m. OSLO, Nov. 21. Aircraft from four countries, ships, coastguards and huhdrieds of police and Vdllintegi-s are searching for a 'Duteh Dakota aircraft wliich is believed to have crashed over Oslo Fiord laat night. , It was carrying 30 Jewish refugee children and two nurses from North America to Norway. All the children are under 12 morniiig. Others tried to reaeh years of age and most of them a woo'ded ridge some 30 miles froin are between seven and eigliw They the ciiy after seeing a light in were traveliing under the auspices the area. of the Jewis'h-American Joint Dis- j Aircraft experts examined .a trihution Committee to enjoy ah signal light parachute f-ound in educational spell in Norway be- that vieinity.

fore rejommg their parents now settled in Israel. ' Rescuers from four nations joined in the search today. They { ihcluded a Swedish fighter squad- j ron and. Norwegian, Danish and Duteh. aircraft, Hopes of fin-ding the "Dakota have been raised and then dashed several times today. It is believed the aircraft crashed near Oslo as the last radio contact was made ' when the aircraft was over Oslo Fiord some miles south oi Fornebu airfield where it was to land. i An explosion, possibly from a crashing plane, sent searchers into the hilly districts outside Oslo this Wm l|— HI— — — i i— mm—