ENGINE GOING BADLY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19942, 31 May 1930, Page 15

ENGINE GOING BADLY.

MISS JOHNSON'S CRASH.

DOCTOR ORDERS REST. (USITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 30th, 8.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 30. Miss Amy Johnson attended two women's functions to-day, but will attend no more for a day or two as the doctor has ordered complete rest. Sho is unnerved by the crowds, and tlio pace set by her multitudinous admirers. Discussing the accident yesterday she explained she had magneto trouble all tho way from Longreach. The engine functioned splendidly while going at full speed, but when she slowed tho throttle it showed signs of stopping altogether and spluttered ominously. Each time she landed the engine always stopped immediately. She anticipated trouble when coming down to the aerodrome yesterday as the spluttering returned, and the aeroplane began to lose height and made a very steep side slip. She knew she was in for a smash, but she had no fear, and just waited. _ At the same time she did not bargain for running into the fence and turning upside down. HIT WIRE FENCE. BRISBANE, May 30.' Later reports reveal that Miss Amy Johnson's crash was attended by more serious possibilities than the first news indicated. It appears that her aeroplane struck a barbed-wiro fence, and the machine turned over, after knocking down a post. She was travelling at about 10 miles an hour when she hit the .fenee, two posts of which caught in tho wings. The aeroplane went through for about five yards, stood on its nose, and finished upside down. When the men arrived Miss Johnson was lying on the ground. "The petrol is running out," she said. "Let me turn it off I don't want the machine to catch fire." LIKE A CINDERELLA. ADDRESS TO WOMEN. (Received May 30th, 9.20 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 30. Touching sidelights of Miss Amy Johnson's exploit were revealed while she was addressing a conference of the Women'B Christian Temperance Union to-day. After likening herself to a Cinderella who was afraia sho might wake up to find all the good things about her mythical, sho said: "I want to tell you a remarkable incident. I firmly believe thero is Somebodv who watches over us. Each day before I hopped off I said, 'Please, dear God, see me safely through to-day,' and now I know there is a higher Power. I feel it." She then related remarks of some of those who surrounded her "Thank God, you're not a Yankee,' one man shouted. That exclamation instantly made me realiso I was really doing something to bind the English people more closely together."