FLYING WITH A LION.
AVIATOR CRASHES ON
MOUNTAIN
A STRANGE AWAKENING
(BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIG.IT.) (Sydney "Sun" Seevice.) (Received September 20tli, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 19. Martin Jensen, winner of the second prize in the Dole flight to Honolulu, crashed on Saturday in the mountains of Northern Arizona, narrowly escaping death. Early on Friday he left Los Angeles for a non-stop transcontinental flight with a tame movie lion as his sole passenger. A special cage was built behind the pilot. A mountainside suddenly loomed out of the fog and the aeroplane was demolished. Jensen was stunned and opened his eyes to see the lion pleasantly sleeping fifty feet away from the broken cage. "1 was sent to deliver the lion and if I could not do it aboard the aeroplano I was at liberty to try it walking," said Jensen to some cowboys who found him on Sunday afternoon leading tho lion by the collar, trying to find a water-hole.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19111, 21 September 1927, Page 9
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