MR CHIFLEY’S FLIGHT TO N.Z.
AIR BOARD INSISTS ON FOUR-ENGINED PLANE
(Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 10. The Australian Air Board bps decreed that the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) must use a four-engined aeroplane on his flight to New Zealand next week. Mr Chifley Had planned to use his personal Dakota and to take with him its usual crew. He will now leave here at 6 a.m. on Monday in a R.A.A.F. Liberator bomber. « The Air Board is believed to have been influenced by the recent Tasman incident when bad weather and a motor failure forced a flying-boat to jettison passengers’ luggage and freight
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 7
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