Six Survivors From Missing Plane
FIVE OTHERS DROWNED LONDON, Dec. 24. A warsliip led the search over tho Mediterranean for the overdue British Lockheed airliner which came down in 1 the sea on its flight from Solium (Egypt) to Malta.. A later message states that three passengers and three members of the crew of the airliner have been landed ] at Malta after having been picked up , by the French steamer .Saint Georges , near Sicily. ! The six air liner survivors paid tri- . bute to the captain for skilfully i manoeuvring tho 'plane in the direction ['of a sailing boat, but the wind was unl favourable. Thus the boat was overr late to have tho three other passengers j and two members of the crew who were i drowned. Tho boat transferred the SJHLviyera tQ the St, Georges,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 2
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