TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19109, 19 September 1927, Page 9

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT FAILS,

WEATHER UNFAVOURABLE.

(BT CABLE—PSisi iSSOCIATIO*—COPraiOHT) (AusTßALua And Sr.*. cabli issocxinow.

{Received September 18th, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, September 17,

Captaiii Mclhtosli, accompanied by Commandant Fitztnaurice, of the Free State Air ForCe, took off from Baldohnal for America at 1.34 this morning, The weather was cold and windy, aiid the sky ovfercast.

He Was, fotced to turd back and land jit Ballybtirnian, at the mouth of the Shannon river;

The failure of iiis attempt will probably end Atlahtic ventures for the preserit season, because 1 heiiceforth the Atlantic frill bo hd playgt-ound. The, aeroplane was forced down, and fifty feet from thb WEtter the visibility was ohly & feW yards. Mcintosh turned faick* at five O'clock, in the eveiiingj emptying his petrol tanks en routfe. [Captain, Mcintosh ariti Air Commanddnt Fftzfo&tiricej Of the Free State Ait Force. ajinbuticed recfently that they would Mtteirigt to fly the Atlantic in. thb Ptiircess Xevia, a sister aerbpiahb tb the St. Raphael, in which the Princess Loewenstein was lost.]

SIX MttaMb.

PASSENGER 'PLANE CRASHED.

(BT CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COPIBIGHT). (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Rebfelvbd Sbptenibfer 18th, 11.5 p.m.) NEW. fORE, .September If. •A message frbm Plainfield, New Jersey, states that six persons were killed and five sefiously injured when & Foltker commercial passenger aeroplane fcra3hed to-day.

Fivi ftiLLfiD IN CRASH.

(ii?StaatiiK Akd xr;S; cibhi AssociATib^.)

LONCON, if., A United, Press nibssage.from .BerM reports that five nori-commissionbd. ofc cbrs were. killM in a seaplane crasli iii Hehkgbviha. PACIFIC FLIGHT* AuSTRALiAN AT^iM^Ti (it/gTiiuiii 'Jjjfi K.z. cabub AssociATib|(.) (ifliSelved jStii, 11.5 p^fej MONbLXJLTJ, Septehiber 17; . Aiidefson has retur.nbd trSin Kati|i; Ss pid thlj; iiyeftl wbiila prbbaby tis@ the Barkitig Sands fiel.d) near Mana on Kauai Islarid., He liit&. Htipd for improvemerits tb the,field, Which at preseftt is ii&t entirely snitable Idr a takS-offi LBfiNE'S jBASTiftN FLiGjai*. '(if . ciiLii—F&isii isgociATioK—eortrltidaT.) (Secelfbi-§^{^mb*6i i 'i6th, 1:16 d.ta.) LONlibN, Septcniijfer 18. Charltjs Levirie and, Captaiii Hiihchcliffe twice tried fo take off froin Cfantveil fof biit SSfilt to the gfbiind, which was sodden with the heavy rSiriß, £ri9.fiiii inSgfiiiiS Md be tfhgfeled back to the iiarigafi ':