NO TRACE OF LOST AIRMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 59, 25 March 1937, Page 5

NO TRACE OF LOST AIRMEN

-Press ftsdPairtt.ibn.)

Crash Into Sea Seems Definite

MORE WRECKAGE FOUND

♦By Telesi'n.nh-

WELLINGTON, L&St Night. From further pxeces of wreckage cafit upon the shore neAr Makara to-day ^ ii seems establxshed that the mi&sxng Gypsy Moth aeroplane returning from the aero pageant at Hokitika on TueSday crashed into the. sea. At nightfall to-night no trace had been seen of the machine or the occupants. Arthur Smith and J. Hamill. Because visihility wae bad the proposed aerial eearch was not as intenbiV6 as it Wbuld have been otherwise, but the machinea engaged found noth-' ing to report. While eearohiniz the beach south of1

Makara about 7 this morning Mr M. J«, Kirkcaldie, of Makara, discovered an-i other intdr-plane strut, two pieces ofi aefoplane wing and another piece of material identifled as part of the1 'plane'a undercarri&ge. Though unable to aay definitely thal. ihe wreckage found belongs to thfc mxssing machine Flying-Ofdcer Buckeridge said the parte were tr&ceable td. a Gypsy Moth. On the patt fottnd of the undercarriage was inscribed thi, maker's number and alao the Air Miu* istry date stamp. Should no further traces Of the machine be washed up it would be necessary io confirm identxAcation by cabling to Englaud. Two mounted police who leffc the city early in the morning also patrolled the locality but discovered no eign of wreckage or anything to indicate where the machine might be. They kept * etrict lookout for oil patches on the rocks, hoping that if tr&ces were seen by a proeess of calculation of Tuesday 'a wiud drift and tide to work out the possible direction of where the machine was. The constables will remain in the vicinity of Te Kamaru as long as it ie? considered necessary. A search by launoh was also xmder- , taken to-day by Mr. John O. Tait, of Island Bay. He crulsed extensxvely on. a patrol about 788 yards from the shore i bnt the search was unsuccessfuL Pro-, vided conditions are suitable he will, m&ke another search to-morrow morn- ; ing accompanied by Messrs Sxnith andi Hamill, the respective fathers of the' missing flyers who arrived in Wellington to-day. It is likely other launches' will join Mr Tait.