CHICHESTER UNHURT.
'Plane Damaged In Tripoli Marshes.
FOG CAUSES ACCIDENT
(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)
(Received 11.30 a.m.) ROME, December 22. Air. F. C. Chiehester. the voune
New Zealand airman, who left Croydon on Friday in an effort to beat Bert Hinkler's record on a flight to Australia, made a forced landing in the Tripoli marshes. He was unhurt but his machine "was somewhat damaged. Fog prevented him from seeding the adjacent beacons.
Mr. Chichester has named his '"plane Moses and his motor Elijah.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 7
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