CREW BALES OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 9

CREW BALES OUT.

DORNIER FLIES ON. CRASHES 150 MILES OFF. (0.C.) LONDON", November 6. Four Nazi airmen were taken prisoners by the Wiltshire police; the Dornicr bomber from which they had baled out sailed on across Kngland to crash l.» 0 miles away in Suffolk. This amazing war incident wa«s revealed in an east coast town following a three-day seareh throughout Suffolk for the missing crew. The Dornicr crashed during the night in the Stour estuary, near Ipswich. When it was found in the morning. Home (juards, police, military and even schoolboys took part in a search for the crew over many miles of lonely country. No trace was found of the missing Nazis. No one had seen parachutes falling in Suffolk; no one had seen the men leave the plane on the ground. Examination of the Dornie.v showed that it was little harmed by the cra~h, but there were indications that it waliit by A.A. lire. Meanwhile, Wiltshire police found the Nazis wandering about not far from where they had landed by parachute. Their plane, sailed on in the night. Its "robot" pilot—the autoiuatie device which keeps machines in flight on an even keel —had looked after it until the petrol ran out.