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A Miles Training Aircraft

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the af ternoon of the 29th of January, 1949, the police reported an aet-opttie down in the sea about a mile off shore between Lancing and Shoreham, and the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched nine min- utes later. There was a light variable breeze and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found the remains of a Miles training aircraft one mile south of Lancing, and among the wreckage the bodies of two men. She towed the wreckage to Shoreham and returned to her station at 4.5. There she landed the bodies.—Rewards, £11 Is..