4TH YEAR ENTERED
ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE LIFE. USE OF NORTHERN ROUTE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 20. The Pan-America clipper service across the Atlantic entered on its fourth year today. It has carried 18,648 passengers in 673 flights, which total 3,161,959 miles, without the loss of a single life. An Ottawa message states that a Pacific clipper left a maritime Canadian airport today for Britain over the northern route, for the first scheduled flight on this route since its use was discontinued at the outbreak of war in 1939. The flight inaugurates a schedule of two round trips weekly between Britain and the United States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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