FACED STORMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 7

FACED STORMS.

Airwoman's Vain Dash for

ICE ON WINGS.

Record.

TWO-DAY DESERT TREK

(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. A forced landing in the hills and a two-day trek by camel to Jask across deserts, was the experience of Mile. Maryse Hilsz, noted French aviatrix, who insisted on continuing her attempt on the Saigon-Paris record through Persian storms although she was aware that her engine was not in a condition to face up to bad weather.

Violent storms prevented Mile. Hilsz from crossing the Persian Gulf. She decided to go northwards by the coastwise route, but again met bad weather, also engine trouble. She contemplated descending by parachute, but made a forced landing near Karjonskv. Her 'plane was slightly damaged.

HINDENBURG'S RUN.

New German Zeppelin for

Atlantic. SERVICE NEXT JUNE. NEW YORK, January 5. The German Zeppelin Company announces that in June it will resume the North Atlantic airship service, which was stopped on May t> by the burning of the Hindenburg. The latter's sister ship LZI3O, which will use helium gas, will make 18 round trips in 1938.

A larger dirigible, LZI3I, will l>e ready for the service in 1031) and will compete against the flying boats of Imperial Airways and Pan-American Airways. Dirigibles require two and a lia)f days for the westward trip and two for the eastward trip, whereas the flying boats averaged under one day in their tests.

CANADIAN KILLED.

PLANE ABLAZE 'AFTER CRASH. (Received 11.30 a-m.) LONDON, January 5. A Canadian, H. J. Clitlieroe, was killed while piloting a Royal Air Force training machine, which struck a tree at Whitmore, Staffordshire, and caught lire.

ARMY BOMBER CRASHES.

RESCUE IN 'FRISCO BAY

SAN FRANCISCO, January 5,

An army bomber with a crew of five men crashed in San Francisco Bay after a radio call for aid and the emptying of the petrol tanks in an effort to remain aloft.

The machine struck the water near an old oil derrick in a thick fog. Coastguard and police boats were sent to tlie scene with a navy tug.

The crew of the tug found the occupants of the aeroplane clinging to it as it floated and rescued them all uninjured.

SIX KILLED AT FRANKFORT

FRANKFORT, January 5

A Lufthansa air liner from Milan crashed when landing at the Frankfort airport owing to ice on the wings. Three passengers and three of the crew were killed.