BROADBENT'S ILL LUCK
LANDING IN JAVA
RESULT OF EXHAUSTION
(Received March 23, 11.45 a.m.)
DARWIN, This Day.
Mr. H. F. Broadbent, who arrived by mail plane from Sourabaya, said: "It was sheer exhaustion that brought me down. It had nothing to do with the machine. It was bad luck, for 1 was only six hours from" Darwin and a record. I had been having giddy fits for an hour before I came down."
He added that he came down at 3 o'clock in the morning in bright moonlight. Large stones in tall grass where he, landed caused damage to the plane.
Mr. Broadbent related how he had slept until the afternoon. When he awoke six Malays were staring curiously at him. They took him six miles to a Dutch mission school, where he spent the night. He returned to the plane next day for his belongings, andt while there was sighted by the searching plane.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1938, Page 11
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