Article 76N67 Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found.

Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found.

by
Ellsworth Toohey
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At 3:17 a.m. on January 30, 1948, radio officer Robert Tuck aboard the Avro Tudor Star Tiger acknowledged receiving a bearing from Bermuda - and was never heard from again. The aircraft had been flying from the Azores to Bermuda through gale-force winds at just 2,000 feet, far lower than the route required. - Read the rest

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