Another Semaster Down
p. 130 · Read in the full issue
THE second Martin Seamaster jet flying-boat crashed after break ing up in the air while under going test-flying in the United States on November 11.
The first of this interesting type crashed last December, resulting in further experimentation and modification. In spite of the first disaster, the US Navy made a firm order for 25 of these $62-million aircraft.
As previously mentioned in PIM,
the type is of great potentia terest to Pacific residents, i success might have meant th turn of the flying-boat, jet po\ to commercial aviation, wit particular application to E Islands communications.
No lives were lost in the crash, the crew parachuting ini sea. - —tln early November, in Caledonia, flags were being at half-mast on public and p buildings in sympathy for martyrs in Hungary.