INITIAL DISASTER

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1933, Page 7

INITIAL DISASTER

ULM'S ATLANTIC FLIGHT

UNDERCARRIAGE FAILS

COLLAPSE UNDER LOAD

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright. (Received July 28, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, July 27.

Receiving favourable weather reports as to the prospects of a transatlantic flight, Mr. C. T. P. Ulm left with his party from Heston hurriedly in tho aeroplane Faith in Australia at 4.40 o'clock this morning for Dublin. Friends slept in the open on a hot and cloudless night in order to farewell the aviators, who are confident of success.

Ulin declared he would not go if the outlook was dangerous. He had made sure of' everything. He knows the position of all ships crossing the Atlantic in the next 36 hours. He carries flares. His wife at Sydney realises the venture is safe. Allen spent the night reading a book on airships and the Atlantic crossing. The Faith in Australia arrived safely in Dublin, where preparations were made for an early take-off from Portmanioek Beach. While it was being wheeled off the planks the machine slipped and the undercarriage broko under the strain of the weight of a thousand gallons of petrol, and several people were pinned under the wing. Frantic efforts were made to extricate them. One broke a leg and two were seriously injured and taken to hospital. Tho rising tide threatens the aeroplane, and engineers are working feverishly in an attempt to dismantle it. The tip of one wing is smashed.

The flight has been definitely. Ulm says that he has no intention of abandoning the attempt.

postponed in-