The Archive · 1928

THE CAIRO-BAGHDAD

MAIL LINER

Forced Landing: Nomadic Arabs'

Friendliness Baghdad, Dec. 30.

An airliner with mails failed to arrive here last night from Cairo. 'A wireless message received from the pilot of the plane says that he was forced to make a landing 200 miles from Baghdad.

Another Imperial Airways machine left Baghdad early this morning, but was not able to find the missing aeroplane though its position was indicated: 'The search will be resumed' this afternoon machine piloted by Captain Warner, whose wife is a passenger on the missing air liner, which is believed to have descended in an area popt: Inted by a wild Arab tribe.

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