MISTOOK SIGNALS
COULD HAVE LANDED AT DRYSDALE HOW SMITH GOT LOST Reed. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A message lias been received by the Chief Secretary for Western Australia from Captain Crane, who was sent from Wyndham to organise native parties to search for the Southern Cross. The message shows that the Southern Cross could have descended at the Drysdale Mission, but mistook the beckoning of the missionaries to come down to be an indication that Wyndham was in a south-westerly direction. The message which Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith dropped from the plane for direction had not then been seen. It was found three days later. THREE PLANES RUINED A message from Melbourne says that of the live Air Force airplanes which were sent into Central Australia to search for the missing aviators recently, only two are likely to return to the Point Cook base. Two have already been written off as scrapped through engine faults. The third was burned after escorting the packhorse party back from Wave Hill.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 9
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