AIRMEN FORGED DOWN
RESCUED BY FRENCH FISHING BOAT ' (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, May 2. (Received May 3, at noon.) Two airmen, Gadzar, a nineteen-year-old Indian of Bombay, and Heil, of Vienna, aged twenty, made a forced landing in a fog over the Channel during the night when their petrol supply became exhausted. Distress signals were observed by the crew of a French fishing boat, which was eighteen miles north-west of Dieppe, and both airmen were rescued, having-- suffered no injury apart from a few bruises. The airmen, who had_ been undergoing advanced aviation instruction at Southampton, were returning from an air pilots’ conference at Geneva when the mishap occurred.
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Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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113AIRMEN FORGED DOWN Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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