AIR TRANSPORT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 7

AIR TRANSPORT

SERVICES IN CENTRAL AMERICA'

(Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. ... A remarkable change effected" m'.ili*,;. . ; speed of transportation in Centrai--"" America by the introduction of air- ser- •-.■- vices was one of the chief impressions. re».\ \ ceived by Mr. C. M. Falconer during a:ie-,. V cent tour of that part of the world. Mr. . h Falconer arrived at Auckland r from "'['- Panama by the Tamaroa yesterday. ... ', "You can do in an hour or two a jour- X"' ney which formerly would have , taken.. . several days," he said. "The best example./] which I can quote is the journey 'from .':; Colon to Bogota, the">gapital of Colombia/; T which is being done in two days by-aero'; .;' plane, although it takes .anything.. ifroigu.'-V ten days to four weeks to doit.by water, • - fc the exact time, depending on the: amount J'(-.> of water in the Magdalena River." , ... ■

An exciting experience which narrowly, >'- escaped being a disaster befell. .Mi.",]?aVL'.;;. coner when lie was proceeding by.air from.! ..'■'i Tegucigalpa, the 'capital of [Honduras,'., $»'.-'.> the north coast. Owing "to bad weather.'.' a forced landing had to be made in rnoun-. tainous country, and; it was accomplished .';" without injury to the four passengers or '■" the pilot. They were'told afterwards iihat *~.;' by a stroke of. good fortune the 'plane-' - had been within reach of the only'jilace■...... where a landing was . possible, without;."',;.; crashing. The journey which would have ■ ..;; taken an hour in the aii- occupied" .a"-"aa?". '; and a half. By the tircc the p3r:.r; reach- „•- ed the coast the newspapers had pubhsb- . icd the story that a very bad fflnwa Bad ,: : Loccurred, two passengers being ki!l*d..MH»'. . 'igtherß Berionsly injnre<l < .'.' .\.