Pilot’s wife waits
I (N.Z. Press Association) i AUCKLAND, December 26 ; Mrs Jocelyn Ogilvie, the 'wife of an Auckland pilot [forced down over South Vietnam this month, does not (know when her husband will be home.
Mr Ogilvie, who was flying a Fletcher aircraft from i Madras to Sydney via Singapore, strayed into Vietnamese air space through a fault in navigating equipment, and was forced down by South Vietnamese aircraft.
He telephoned his wife from Saigon on Saturday to say he had been released from detention. Mrs Ogilvie said tonight that her husband was now waiting for aircraft spares, and for the aircraft to be serviced in Saigon. She did not know when he would arrive back in New Zealand
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33418, 27 December 1973, Page 1
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