AERODROME SCENE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 14, 27 October 1934, Page 6

AERODROME SCENE.

WOMAN'S "SAVE ME" CRY. UNWILLING TO ENTER, 'PLANE. An exciting scene at a French aerodrome preceded the flight to England of a woman passenger in a specially chartered' British aeroplane. ■ As soon as the aeroplane arrived at Le Bourget an ambulance drove up, and from it—according to & report from Paris—a woman doctor, a nurse, and another attendant transferred a woman, aged about 70. Suddenly she uttered a startling cry, "Help, help!" she yelled. "They are kidnapping me." The woman's protests were so vociferous that the commandant of the aerodrome, M. Girardot, appeared, and to the accompaniment of her cries of "Save me, Save me!" he made an investigation. It was explained that the patient was an Englishwoman whose health was so poor that it had become necessary to transfer her from her residence in Paris to England, where she was to Undergo medical treatment. The patient, howeyea-, it was stated, did not favour removal, and in their solicitude members of her family had decided that it would be better for her to travel by air rather than by train and boat. After consulting police headquarters the commandant raised no objection to the patient being taken on the journey. Less than two hours later the machine landed at Hillman's Mayland aerodrome at Romford, where it was expected. Mr Edward Hillman said later:' "When the machine landed the patient was quite normal, and was laughing. She walked out with the doctor, a nurse, and a male attendant. A car was in waiting and in it the party left the aerodrome. The French doctor, the nurse, and the attendant returned to Paris later." The patient, who remained perfectly self-possessed, was driven by iroad! to a nursing home at Oxford.