POND AND SABELLI
3IISHAPS TO MACHINE
r VANDALISM SUSPECTED
(Received May 29, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, May 28. Tho American aviator Captain Pond, who with Lieut. .Ccsare Sabelli, flew from Brooklyn to Ireland, making a perilous forced landing on the coast of Clare, subsequently progressing by easy stages to Heston, eh route for Rome, their original destination, announced that the^ overhaul of their aeroplane in Ireland had disclosed faults which wero certainly not accidental. -"Wo consider," he said, 'that tliey were caused by vandalism and have some idea of the persons responsible. We shall take legal action, if .possible, on our .return to America. "It was more by good fortuno-than anything else .that wp got as far -as we did/. Three things were wrong, any one of which might hay© caused • disaster. The pe,trol did not come through pro-^ perly, and Sabelli effected repairs in mid-air, working three hours with a small punch and broken hacksaw blade."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 7
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