Immediately upon the receipt of the news, several planes from MIN, 8, Hermes were sent to scout the rea, followed by H, M. S. Wanderer, which steamed tothe scene of the disaster at 25 knots per hour. harbour tugs and the H. M.S. Hermes also went out, 'The Wanderer was able, it, it, believed, to locate the position of the sunken plane by some patches of oil floating face of the water, The: on until after' dark, Dut all hope of finding the piled alive been abandoned. is thought that Lieut. Phillips was drowned result of dragged down by the heavy machine, or that, as the falling plane struck the water, he was killed outright by, the explosion, This tragedy is the first of its kind in Hongkong, though Lieut. Phillips had a narrow escape from death in almost similar cir, cumstances when flying on the day' fof the arrival of Sir Cecil Clementi, the Governor. His machine then nose-dived into the sea, but fortunate ly both he and his' observer, Lieut. Mackintosh, were picked up by a passenger steamer. Lieut, Phillips was unmarried and, prior to his to Hongkong, lived in on, London. His) next-of-kin, is Mr. C. B. Phillips, of Endsleigh Gardens, Surbiton,
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