A FORCED LANDING.
SMITH AND SHIERS. FLIGHT MAY BE ABANDONED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, April 27. A message from Bangkok states that Messrs R. L. Smith and R W. Shiers, who are flying from Australia to England, were forced down in rough country thirty miles from the Siamese capital. The pilots were unhurt, but a wing of the machine was broken, and the "flight mav have to be abandoned. The aeroplane was unable to take ott fully loaded from Singora, on the east coast of .the-Malay Peninsula, owing to the aerodrome's limited space. 100 pilots therefore had to start with a minimum load, which proved insufficient for them to reach Bangkok.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 166, 28 April 1930, Page 5
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