MISSING PLANE
LOCATED FROM THE AIR IN BUSH NEAR TOKOMARU STREAM. PILOT UNLIKELY TO BE ALIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) received advice at noon today that the aeroplane missing from Uhakea was located from the air four or five miles up the Tokomaru Stream, in very dense bush. It is crashed and burnt out. It is not thought likely that the pilot, Pilot-Officer Thomas E. Kirk, is alive. A ground party immediately left for the scene and is expected to reach it about three o’clock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1940, Page 6
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93MISSING PLANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1940, Page 6
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