AIRLINER IN A TREE
While touring the Orkney Islands with a pilot and five passengers, a Highlands Airways airliner came down in a tree at Rousay as a result of a "down draught" from a hill. The machine was left suspended, and ladders had to be hoisted so that the passenger could climb down. Nobody was hurt apart from a few scratches. "The machine was engaged on a twohour tour of the. Orkney Islands," an official of Highlands Airways explained. "The pilot decided to make a forced landing owing to strong down wind from a neighbouring hilL It was exceedingly difficult country, and part of his machine caught the branches of a tree. He came to rest with the machine's tail suspended eight feet from the ground."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 13
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127AIRLINER IN A TREE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 13
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