Unheard of Since Forced Landing near Wyndham Sydney, Mar, 30.
Captain Kingsford-Smith and Mr. Ulm, who were the first and only airmen to fly across the Pacific from California to Australia, started to-day on a non-stop flight to Wyndham, in north-west Australia, a distance of 2,000 miles across the continent. From Wyndham they will hop off for Singapore on their way to England.
Mar. 31.
Capt. Kingsford-Smith and Mr, Ulm made a forced landing near Wyndham due to the lack of petrol. The crew of four, including a naviga ator and a wireless operator, are all well, Apr. 3.
Nothing has been heard of the aeroplane Southern Cross, piloted by Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr. Ulm, since it made a forced landing near Wyndham, in Western Australia, on March 31, after a Aight of 2,000 miles from this city.
'An aeroplane, which will search for the missing, plane, has lof Carnarvon, on Shark Bay, flying north-east across country to Derby, on King Sound, It will ly over the Prince Regent' River Aret Two other aeroplanes at Canberra and Widgeon detailed to join in the search, have been held up owing to torrential rains in New South Wales, Queensland and the Nort! Territory, which have flooded aerodromes, making it - impos for the machines to take off.
Telegraphic communication between Derby and Wyndham has been interrupted, Native runners are searching for the missing plane and Kingsford Smith and Ulm in the sparsely populated country in the neighbourhood of Wyndham.
Apr. 4.
So far the search for the aeroplane Southern Cross, Captain Kingsford Smith and Ulm has proved fruitless. A' second aeroplane has left Derby, in West Australia, to scour the vicinity of the Fort George Mission and the Regent 'A fand has been opened to defray the extensive search which is being made for the missing aviator £2,000 was subscribed immediately.—Reater.
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