MISHAP AT CROYDON AIRPORT
MACHINE LANDS WITHOUT UNDER-CARRIAGE
(INDEPENDENT CABLE SEBVICE.) LONDON, February 14. Fire engines and ambulances waited at the Croydon airport while a British Airways aeroplane from Paris, with seven passengers and a crew of two, circled the airport for two hours with the crew endeavouring to rectify a jammed under-car-riage. Th»; machine eventually landed with the under-carriage retracted. No one was injured and the aeroplane was only slightly damaged.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22637, 16 February 1939, Page 11
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