AIRMEN'S ESCAPE
MACHINE CATCHES FIRE
LONG WALK THROUGH BUSH
(Received November 5, 3 pjn.) SYDNEY, This Day. When an aeroplane which they were flying over the Blue Mountains caught fire in mid-air Rex Nicholl, aged 26, the Tasman flyer, and Albert Needham, 29, had miraculous escapes from death. They managed to bring the machint down at the bottom of a. deep gorge,' and escaped with slight facial injuries. ' The machine was wrecked. The men took the compass from the aeroplane , and walked all yesterday through bush, ; eventually reaching Newnes Junction, near Lithgow, last night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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94AIRMEN'S ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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