PLANE WRECKED.
Beams Of Lighthouse Save Lost Airmen. NEARING EXHAUSTION. (Received 2'^Hn.) LONDON, July i-
A special message from Paris" pays that Commander Byrd and his pilots were steering the America away from her goal towards Havre wheti they suddenly saw the beams of Ver-sur-Mer lighthouse. It was then 3.32 a.m., five hours after they should have* landed at Le_BoUrget. Their petrol was running out, and the centre engine had stopped, so they decided to descend. The force of their impact with the sand shattered the America and broke her forepart. There was a high sea running and the darkness was intense when they made their way shoreward And were discovered as related in an .earlier mesSA°e. Commander Byrd and LieUieiMMlt Neville were almost exhausted. Byrd nearly fainted while being taken to thfe village. The others weHt to notify the iighthouse-keeper. The America was half-submerged, her landing gear smashed, the petrol tanks perforated, and. her propellers broken. The airmen slept until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Commander Byrd, interviewed while enjoying a meal in the Mayor's house, said: "Perhaps we were over Paris* I do. not know.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 9
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187PLANE WRECKED. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 9
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