CAPELLA DAMAGED
MISHAP AT BATAVIA PASSENGERS AND BAGGAGE LANDED. MAINTENANCE OF NORMAL SERVICE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) BATAVIA, March 12. The flying-boat Capella, when approaching the mooring buoy, struck a submerged object, was holed and began leaking badly. Passengers and baggage were removed in a boat and the Capella was beached, partly submerged.
Mails and passengers are continuing to Europe on normal schedule. A relief machine was flown from Singapore, making a night landing at Penang in order to catch up time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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87CAPELLA DAMAGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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