MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
PLANE ON FIRE IN MID-AIR.
TASMAN FLYER’S ADVENTURE.
LANDING IN A DEEP GORGE
United Press Association--Copyright) (Received This Day, 2.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
When ,a ’plane in which they were flying oyer the Blue Mountains caught fire in mid-air,.Rex Nicholl, aged 26, the Tasman flyer, and Albert Needham, aged 29, had miraculous escapes from death. They managed to bring the ’plane down at the bottom of a deep gorge, and escaped with slight facial injuries.
The ’plane was wrecked* The two men took the compass from the ’plane and walked all yesterday through the bush, eventually reaching Newnes Junction, near Lithgow, last night.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 20, 5 November 1935, Page 5
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