AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 13

AVIATION.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE

AVIATORS MEET AT LONELY OUTPOST.

(Received March 28tli, 12.40 a.m.)

SYDNEY, March 27.

A remarkable coincidence, unprecedented in the history of Australian aviation, occurred at Camooweal late this afternoon, when Messrs D. Smith and W. Shiers, in the City of Sydney, and Flying-Officers Piper and Kaye both landed simultaneously. Tho meeting in the lonely outpost was the more remarkable because both aeroplanes were not running to schedule.

NEW ZEALAND FLYERS.

TRANS-CONTINENTAL JOURNEY.

(Received March 27th. 6.55 p.m.)

DARWIN, March 27

Tho Now Zealand airmen, FlyingOfficers Piper and Ivaye, landed at Tennant Croek at 3 o'clock yesterday, apparently being bushed. _ They _ retarned to Powell Creek this morning, and then flew east towards Brunette Downs.

BURIAL OF AVIATOR. THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL. (Received March 27th, 7.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 27. A mossage from Hatton, North Dakota, states that Lieutenant Eielson was buried beside his mother in tho local cemetery in the presence of hundreds of townsfolk and numerous dignitaries. Seven thousand persons Witnessed tho funeral, when a halfholiday was declared and shops, offices, and school closed. A squadron of National Guard aeroplanes droned overhead as the funeral cortege moved to the cemetery.

[The bodies of Lieutenant Carl Eielson and his mechanic, Earl Borland, were, after being missing since the beginning of Novembor, found by a Soviet aviator near North Capo in a Snowbank, into .which they had been hurled when their mail aeroplane crashed.]