KINGSFORD SMITH
WRECKAGE OF PLANE FOUND ON ISLAND NEAR COAST OF BURMA. POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. , CANBERRA, May 24. Aircraft wreckage found on the southern bank of Aye Island, near Burma, in May, 1937, has been positively identified as portion of the Lockheed Altair plane in which Sir Charles Kingsford Smith disappeared on his last flight to Australia. This announcement was made today by the Minister of Defence, Mr Thorby, who said the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation at Los Angeles had positively identified the markings on the oleo cylinder of the salvaged undercarriage as being those of Sir Charles’s machine. Investigations of shellfish and marine growth on the wreckage by the zoological department of Rangoon University disclosed that the remainder of the wreckage would probably be found at the bottom of the sea at a depth not exceeding fifteen fathoms in close proximity to the spot where the salvaged material was found. Investigations by the Burmese authorities are proceeding in the hope of locating the remaining remnants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 7
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