MISS JOHNSON IN JAVA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 9

MISS JOHNSON IN JAVA

LANDS ON SU.GAR ESTATE

'PLANE NOT DAMAGED

Bnitoil Pross Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Received 20th May, 10 a.m.) : WELTEVBEDEN, 19tli May. Miss Amy Johnson landed safely on a sugar estate at Tjomal, near Pekalongan, in mid-Java, owing to lack of petrol. Tjomal 5s about 200 miles east of Batavia. 1

After flying over Togal at 4 o'clock shu reappeared above the town shortly after, searching for a flying field," failing which she managed to land on a nowly-cleared piece of ground intended for tho new manager's house on a sugar estate, which was exactly large enough for landing and ascending.

Miss Johnson is all right, and the 'piano not damaged. The aviatrix is staying the night as the guest of the sugar estate manager, intending to proceed to-morrow morning to Samarang, Surabaya, and possibly to Bima. The manager saw Miss Johnson above his factory, after which she landed most smoothly and easily right in front of. his office. The airwoman stepped out ch'cerfully, in the best physical condition, though somewhat tired. She stated that she had encountered a heavy storm above tho Java Sea. She j intended to make for Samarang, because-.the heavy, adverse winds precluded a possibility of reaching Surabaya. ' Tho estato 's employees assisted her :to take ml gasoline, and oil, and is proparing the machine for to-morrow's flight.

Miss Johnson's m-ord from Croydon to Rangoon is as foi\>ws:— . sth May.—Left f'reydon and arrived Vienna. -

6th ; May.—Arrivi.l Constantinople. 7th May.—Arrived Aleppo. Bth May.—Arrived Bagdad. 9th May.—Arrived Btmdar Abbas. 10th May.—Arrived Karachi. 11th May.—Arrived Allahabad. • 12th May.—Arrived Calcutta. ' 13th May.—Arrived Insoln, near Bangoon. 10th'May.—Arrived Bangkok. . • 17th May.—Arrived Singora. , 18th. May.T-Arnvccl Singapore.. 19th ' May.—Arrived Tjomal.