AIRMEN FOUND
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Hobart Plane Crashed Into Hillside STRUCK TREE IN FOG
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(Received February 6, 11.45 p.m.) HOBART, Feb. 6, The Air Force plane that was believed to have been lost ln Basa Strait was discovered in hilly coun try near Waratah. A search party located the wreck and reported that both the crew are alive Sergeant W. H. Gould and FlightLieutenant G. K. Buscombe, were found alive and well beside the w recked Hawker Demon. The men had an amazing escape from death. The plane crashed into a hillside when the pilot was attempting to inake a forced landing after the tip of one wing had struck a tree in fog. The machine turned upside down. Buscombe was trapped in the cockpit but escaped with minor injuries. Gould' was saved by his rubber vest, which he had inflated.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 5
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