BULLET HITS PLANE
Machine Over Kashmir
Calcutta, January 17.
After a three months’ adventurous journey across Central Asia by lorry, Sir Eric Teichman. Secretary of the British Legation at Peking, had a narrow escape from disaster while flying from Gilgit, in Kashmir, to Rawalpindi. After crossing the Himalayas at a height of 15,000 feet in intense cold, the aeroplane was flying over tribal territory when it was shot at, a bullet passing through a window near the'pilot’s head. No one was injured.
This is the first occasion that a civil aeroplane has been flown from Gilgit The occupants had a striking view of the unconquered peak Nanga Parbat.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 98, 20 January 1936, Page 6
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