SERIOUS HITCH
' Empire Air Service In Mediterranean PASSENGERS HELD UP 1 Only Available Machine Has Engine Trouble By Telegraph—Press (Received September 14, 9.20 p.m.) ■ ■ ■: I London, September 14. The "Daily Herald’s” Brindisi correspondent says that the failure of the Imperial Airways machine Satyras to arrive there from Alexandria on Sunday morning reveals a serious breakdown in Empire air communications. Army officers under orders to Palestine and India and civil passengers for Australia and Africa are temporarily stranded. It is officially stated that the Satyras wks forced to return tp Alexandria owing to engine trouble. The Satyras is the only available seaplane capable of crossing the Medlternanean In all conditions. This section of the trans-Mediterranean service has been operating under the greatest difficulties for over a year. Overhauls are done piecemeal owing to the disorganisation, and it is' impossible to lay up a machine .without total interruption of Empire services.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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