PLANS FALLS IN SEA.
CREW RESCUED BY STEAMER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrlgM. Received Dec. 19, 11 p.m. '" London, Dec. 18. Owing to engine trouble a HandleyPage aeroplane, flying to Ireland with a crew of seven members of the Royal Air Force, descended to the sea fifteen miles south of Stack lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper reported the accident to Hollyhesd, from which wireless flashed the news to shipping in the Channel. Owing to a careful descent the aeroplane floated for several hours, but the seas were meanwhile breaking it up.
The <*rew crawled to the wings and clung to the cross wires, and a steamer rescued all a few minutes before the aeroplane sank.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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114PLANS FALLS IN SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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