SWAM TO SHORE.
Sudden and Unexpected End to
Duration Flight.
CRASH INTO LAKE.
NEW YORK, September 7.
A few minutes after the pilots had signalled:. "We like our home in the sky and we don't know when we will come down," a monoplane in which Harold Allen and Dick Merrill had set a world endurance record for light aircraft crashed in Lakfe Onondaga, near Syracuse, New York.
The pilots, who had been aloft for 106 hours, were not injured, and after scrambling from the sinking aeroplane through the open windshield they swam to the shore. They explained that the motor had stopped while they were changing sparkinsr plugs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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108SWAM TO SHORE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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