THREE LIVES LOST
RESCUE PLANE PLUNGES INTO SEA. ATTEMPT TO BRING ASHORE SICK SAILOR. (Independent Cable Service.) NEW YORK. July 16. Three lives were lost when a coastguard seaplane on a flight of mercy to bring ashore a sick sailor crashed into the sea. The plane, with its crew of six, had been dispatched from New York al the urgent request of the oceanographic survey schooner Atlantis. 150 miles off the coast, which had reported that one of those on board was critically ill with pneumonia. The plane landed alongside the vessel and had transferred the sick man, but in attempting to take off again a pontoon struck a wave, causing the plane to plunge nose first into the ocean.
The pilot, the co-pilot, and the patient were drowned. Two coastguardsmen suffered broken backs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5
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