NEARLY A CAPSIZE.
AIBMAITS CXOSE CALL. LONDON, April 30. Mr. Gastave Hamel, the -well-known British, airman, who baa made several notable flights of late, narrowly escaped meeting with disaster- yesterday. With a young lady, MJ33 Daires. as a passenger, lie was flying an a Bleriot monoplane at Hendon, when, in the high ■wind that was blowing, the machine was once within an ,ace of turning over. Mr. Hame], however, averted the capsize by cleverly landing his plane among some trees. Ho started to re-ascend, notwithstanding that a, ga-le was -blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour, but was finally dissuaded from persisting in the attempt.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 2
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