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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 7

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GERMAN LONG-DISTANCE PLANE

ON RETURN FLIGHT FROM TOKIO. MEMBERS OF CREW RESCUED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, December 6. A report from the United Press correspondent at Manila states that the German Condor plane, which took off yesterday from Tokio on its return flight to Berlin, landed in the ocean near Rosaria, 30 miles west of Manila. The machine sank, but all the members of the German crew are reported to have been rescued by Filipino fishermen. TIMELY HELP. DESCENT DUE TO MOTOR TROUBLES. (Received This Day. 9.25 a.m.) MANILA, December 6. The six persons aboard the plane were rescued by fishermen a few seconds before the machine sank. Motor trouble was responsible for the descent. A launch from Covite reached the scene and picked the members of the plane’s craw, none of whom were injured and took them to Manila. An attempt will be made at low tide* to salvage the plane, which will then be dismantled and sent to Germany. The Germans are not willing to state the cause of the crash until the machine is dismantled and examined. However, it is indicated that the crash was due to an oil line failure.

Hundreds of people lining the shore could see the submerged plan and some went alongside in canoes, for which reason it is feared that souvenir hunters may damage the plane. A later report states that the plane broke a fuel pipe. Fishermen rescued four of the occupants and a United States amphibian machine is remaining with two members of the crew.