MOTH PLANE MISSING
FLIGHT OVER ALPS SEARCH PARTIES OUT (For Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. It is feared that a West Coast aeroplane piloted by Pilot Officer Lloyd Perry, crashed in the mountains between Bcaley and Otira yesterday on the flight from Christchurch to Grey mouth.
Search parties were out in the mountains yesterday and this morning, seven aeroplanes left from Wigram to conduct an aerial search in qo-operation ■ with West Coast machines.
The aeroplane, Z.K. —A.F.W. a Tiger moth owned by the Greymouth 'xero Club, left Wigram on the return flight to Greymouth at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. It carried no passengers.
Pilot Officer Perry’s machine did no- arrive at the expected time at Greymouth and soon anxiety was felt his .safety. It was known that with a high southerly wind blowing •ver the Alps the pilot- might have met with some trouble.
Enquiries made over a wide field showed that the aeroplane was last sighted flying high over the Benley on the Canterbury side of the Alps
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 5
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168MOTH PLANE MISSING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 5
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