AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

AEROPLANE OVERDUE. MRS GRAYSON MISSING.. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. NEW' YORK, Dec. 21. Twelve hours after it should have arrived at Newfoundland the Dawn, Mrs Grayson’s aeroplane, was missing, it is believed to be adrift on the ocean. Employees of the French cable and telegraph station at Orleans, Massachusetts, heard the airship last night, and expressed the belief that it turned

back after passing Cape Cod. 'l’lie petrol supply is thought to have hcen exhausted. Another message says that the Dawn was due at Harbour (trace at seven this morning and is not yet reported. It carried a crow of four and Frank Koehler as mechanic. NEW YORK, Dec. 25. Airmen sent to search for -Mrs Grayson’s trans-Atlantic machine, tie Dawn, returned to-night and reported that they saw or heard nothing of the missing fliers. LONDON, Dec. 23. Hopes that Mrs Grayson might unexpectedly have decided to make a non-stop flight across the Atlantic, direct from Now York, were- shattered when it was announced from Croydon aerodrome that no wireless reports had been received, indicating that the fliers were headed for Europe.

MESSAGE FROM CANADA. Halifax, Dec 23. \ Canadian Government wireless message from Stable Islands reported communicating with the missing Grayson aeroplane late to-night, saying. “Something gone wrong, but couldn’t get. her owing to •rtorm intcrleieiHe. ITALIAN AIRMAN IN TURKEY PARIS, Dec. 23. Tlic permission of tbe Turkish authorities lias been given to Colonel Antionat. tlio Italian aviator, who was arrested for flying over Turkish territory without leave, and ho has eontinned his flight from Adalia to Aleppo.