HOPE ABANDONED
DESPAIR IN FRANCE By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright PARIS, Thursday. The French Naval Ministry has ibancloned all hope of finding Captain Nungesser and his companions. A high expert says: “We as ume that the airmen were Obliged to descend on to the Atlantic. Their airplane was not constructed to ride out rough weather, and if it did not go to the bottom of the sea immediately, it was probably crushed by the first large wave. “There is slight hope that the two men were picked up by a passing steamer.”
The aptain of the liner France has been ordered to change that vessel’s course and follow the route Captain Nungesser is supposed to have taken to Newfoundland.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 15
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