A LUCKY ESCAPE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19731, 23 September 1929, Page 11

A LUCKY ESCAPE.

AVIATOR FALLS PROM MACHINE. GRABS PARACHUTE AND LANDB. (B»i«u> nut AtMOAttC»•—w HtHl—mißiura ttramt.) (Received September Siad, tM fA.) PANAMA, September 21. Piivate Daniel Smith, of the Amy Service Dlriiioa, and Badio-Operator Deuter were together la Ik* rear of a bombing aeroplane two thonaaad feet &bore Ofttua Lake, wb»a teiifc stumbled and fell through the bombing compartment. Be grabbed the taps of the pltMkltl on which Deoter wu fitting aad drew Deuter'i paraehnte with hi®* S®ith pulled the ripcord of Ma own paraehata, landing safely. The pilot and the two ebeervere eo* tinned unaware of the aeeident, aatfl they die covered that Deutat «M naeoa* eeioiiß. —United Service. DARWIN TO JAPAN. PftOJBCTED FLIGMT It AUSTRALIANS. SYDNEY, Septaotor 31. A Math aeroplane flfctad witk floats will leave for Darwin within ais woato on a flight to Japan. naartiiw* will bo piloted by Cfcptaifl Goraeil a«d Pilot Onaaelins. " * propoaaa to make the flight by aaw atMea mA make a iecoradaah back to fljidiiej Australian Prose A«ociatJOD. CANADIAN AIR PILOT. TO JOIN WILKINS BPIMntMi. dtooofarad Sntftambar #S*rfU MJS >*•) OTTAWA, Sopt—bar St. A Winnipeg meeeaga etataa tfca* Mr A. L. Cheeeeman, the ftntitian pO(t, who haa had great etperienco im aabarctic aviatifcn, haa Mtaptod •• tori; tatioa from &ir Hubert Wfltotfte pilot an aeroplane m too Antwotm He left to joto _o* AnetaaH—explorer at New York.—A®**!* press Association, United Swrke.