Word: akyab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge had left London on Wednesday for a "leisurely" trip home. When the single-motored monoplane reached Allahabad on Thursday, the flyers were scarcely three hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When, as the hours ticked by, there came no sign of the plane, no message from its radio, the Royal Air Force started one of the greatest searches in aviation history. Up from Penang roared 37 planes to scour Sir Charles's route...