The Archive · 1937

NOW HALF-SUBMERGED AFTER FORCED' LANDING WHILE SHANGHAI-BOUND

Three men are still missing from the above plane which was forced to land at sea ninety miles north of Hongkong on Sunday morning. The seven passengers. pilot and one, other member of the crew were safely rescued from Chuang Lighthouse in that vicinity.by the British destroyer H.M.S. Thracian. The above C.N.A.C. plane is a Sikorsky S43 of the Shanghai-Hongkong-Canton line. Messages received yesterday stated that only her tail is now above the surface. Salvage operations are to at once. (Inset) Mr. George Ohrnberger, the missing ce-pilot.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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