HOPE ABANDONED
LOST IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER. DISASTER AT SEA ASSUMED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7. Imperial Airways has officially announced that the search for the airliner Hannibal has been abandoned. It is feared that she was lost at sea and that there wore no survivors of the four passengers and the crew of four. The statement makes it clear that the wreckage seen by the Horsa proved not to be that of the Hannibal and concludes: “The accident brings to and end the proud record of the eight Handley Page 42 ail' liners used by Imperial Airways, though between them they carried several hundred thousand passengers not one jassenger had suffered injury or loss of life.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 5
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117HOPE ABANDONED Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 5
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