MISSING AIRLINER
WIDESPREAD SEARCH IN CHANNEL
FEARS FOR TEN LIVES
(BriUsli Official Wireless.) (Received August 3, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, August 1,
It is feared that 10 lives have been lost on board the British airliner Cloud of lona, which left Guernsey at 7 o'clock last night and was due at Jersey 20 minutes later. It is thought that the machine may have made a forced landing on the sea. Guernsey and Jersey lifeboats kept up a search all night, with the help of several vessels in the neighbourhood, and at dawn two Royal Air Force machines joined in the search. A squadron of Royal Air Force flying-boats, assisted by a number of French aircraft and numerous civil aircraft and ships, later engaged in a widespread search for the missing airliner, which belonged to Jersey Airways, but no trace was found.
In Jersey it is now felt that no further hope can be entertained for the machine or its occupants.
Jersey Airways officials can advance no theory as to the cause of the accident.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 9
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173MISSING AIRLINER Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 9
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