'PLANE BUFFETED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 7

'PLANE BUFFETED.

Pilot's Skilful Handling In

Channel Storm.

PRAISE OF PASSENGERS

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, July 22. A message from Brussels says the passengers from London on an Imperial Airways cross-Channel aeroplane which suddenly ran into the hurricane on Saturday afternoon are loud in their praise of the pilot. He took the machine to an altitude of 12,000 feet in order to escape the storm. Nevertheless the aeroplane was badly buffeted and the passengers were severely shaken. An air pocket caused one drop of 1000 feet. The aeroplane failed to reach Le Bourget, Paris, but made Brussels safely and went on to Paris yesterday morning. JOY RIDE TRAGEDY. THREE KILLED IN OLD "BUS." (United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) CHICAGO, July 22. Two young women paid ten shillings each for the first aeroplane ride to Jens Jensen, who got his pilot's license last year and started to-day carrying passengers in an old time biplane, built at the end of the war. All three were instantly killed. The engine stopped at air altitude of 1000 feet. LANDING IN DARK. PILOT TAKES BIG RISK. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A Moth 'plane, piloted by James Branch, arrived over the Mascot aerodrome last night and circled some time. As there was no light to indicate the landing ground the pilot decided to land in the darkness. A strong wind, however, turned the 'plane completely over just as it alighted. Branch and bis mechanic were slightly injured.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT. STARTING POINT, AMSTERDAM. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) AMSTERDAM, July 22. It is reported that the crew of the Southern Cross will start on their attempt to fly across the .Atlantic from Amsterdam.