Atlantic Victims

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 698, 25 June 1929, Page 9

Atlantic Victims

DERELICT PLANE FOUND No Sign of Spaniards ILL-FATED FLIGHT TO NEW YORK ( UJlitcd P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Received 9 a.m. MADRID, Monday. A WIRELESS message has been picked up which states that a British steamer found a derelict airplane floating 120 miles from the Azores. There was no sign of the crew.

The plane is probably the flyingboat of the Spanish airmen, Major Franco Captain Gallarz and Captain Ruis. They set out from Carthagena on Friday, in an attempt to fly to New York, proposing to go by way of the Azores. It is greatly feared that they have been lost. An earlier report that they had been forced down in the sea and towed to the Azores was contradicted yesterday by the Prime Minister of Spain, General Primo de Rivera. He officially announced that the flyers had not landed at the Azores. ATLANTIC’S VICTIMS MANY FLYERS CLAIMED A SINISTER RECORD It may be that the Spanish airmen have been picked up by a passing

ship, but the Atlantic has a sinister record so far as flying is concerned. Among its victims have been the following:— March, 1927—Captain St. Romain and two companions attempting a flight from France to Brazil. May, 1927—Captain Nungesser and Captain Coli. Paris for New York. August, 1927—Princess Lowenstein Wertheim. Colonel Minchin and Captain Hamilton, Upavon, Wiltshire, for Ottawa. September, 1927 —Lloyd Bertand. James Hill and Phillip Payne, Maine, for Rome. September. 1927—Captain Terry Tully and Lieutenant Metcalf, Newfoundland for Loudon. December, 1927—Mrs. Frances Grayson, Lieutenant Oskar Omdal. Brice Goldsborough and Fred Koehler, America for England. March. 192S —Captain Hinchcliffe and the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Cranwell for New York. October. 192 S—Commander H. C. MacDonald lost in attempt to fly in a Moth airplane from Newfoundland to England.