GRIERSON UNLUCKY.
CAPSIZE OF SEAPLANE. . (Received 11 a.m.) REYKJAVIK, August 20. Mr. John Gwerson, the British airman, who is on a .flight across the Atlantic by the Arctic route, was taking-off for Greenland when his seaplane capsized. He was rescued. In a heavy sea Mr. Grierson's 'piano struck a pontoon, causing the machine to nose-dive. The airman had a narrow escape.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 196, 21 August 1933, Page 7
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