Information is still unavailable as to the whereabouts of the pilot and co-pilot of a “peace plane” that took off from Israel last Wednesday and reportedly landed at Cairo after dropping flowers and leaflets over Israeli and Egyptian positions along the Suez Canal. The single-engined Piper Cub was piloted by Swami Davananda Vishnu, an Indian and Bren Jacobson who is Jewish. Sources here believe they may be held incommunicado by Egyptian authorities. Jacobson, 28, comes from New York and describes himself as a sculptor and friend of Vishnu whom he met in Canada. The two came to Israel from Ireland with the plane and announced several weeks ago that they planned to drop leaflets urging peace between Israel and Egypt. They had no permit to land in Egypt and Cairo radio warned that the plane would be shot at.
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