FORCED LANDING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 12

FORCED LANDING

MRS. MILLER'S STORY

"IT WAS FEARFUL"

LOST OVER THE SEA

United Press Association—>3y Electric Toletraph—CoiijTislit. (Received 3rd December, 1 p.m.) < HAVANA (Cuba), 2nd December. Mrs. Keith Miller, the woman aviator, who was forced down in a gale on Andros Island, in the Bahamas, while I on an attempted flight from Havana to Florida, told the following story:— "A terrific gale blew me off my course somewhere between Havana and tho mainland; Then my compass went out of order. I flew for seven hours looking for a place to land. My gas began to run low, and I got panicky. I did not know whether I was over the Gulf of Mexicoi or over the Atlantic. It was fearful. I was relieved when I saw a spot of land. I thought it was Florida, but it was a village called Kemp's Bay, on Andros Island. There was a terrific wind, but -I came in with a full motor. I stalled her and pancaked into thick bushes. I looked over the ship. It was O.K. I started to walk. ■ It was sixteen miles to the first telegraph station. I walked all the night over the rockiest beach I ever saw, my feet were blistered, and I was mighty tired." "■Mrs. Miller hopes to fly to Miami today. It is understood that Captain Lancaster has heen in touch with the Associated Press, whose officials announce that they decline to- pay him £400 for the newspaper rights of Mrs. Miller's sensational story of her forced landing at the barren Bahaman Island. The story of a forced landing on the barren Bahaman Island, as related on Mondy night by Mrs. Miller, was brought to Nassau by a fishing boat from Andros Island, where she landed on Friday.