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PLANE FROM
TASMANIA
Reported Crash
into Sea
24 ON BOARD
HOBART, Sunday. — A passenger air
craft from Cambridge to Essendon is re-
ported to have crashed into the sea
shortly after taking off at 8.50 p.m.
to-day.
The machine is believe to be a DC3, with
21 passengers on board, and a crew of three.
At a late hour last night Tas-
manian aerodrome authorities
were unable to contact the
plane by radio.
A man who lives two miles
from the aerodrome saw the
plane losing height near Seven
Mile Beach and heard the noise
of a crash as the plane plunged
into the sea. Then there was
silence.
Police and officials are search
ing with flares.
Cambridge is the aerodrome
for Hobart. Owing to bad wea
ther conditions the A.N.A. plane
from Essendon to Hobart was
held back last night.
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