AIRMEN LOST IN DESERT
NOSE-DIVE CONSIDERED 1 ' LIGHTS SEEN "JUST IN TIME. LONDON, December 2. That Ken Waller, fearing. a lingering death in the desert, considered ask* ing Cathcart-Jones to crash their comet aeroplane when' they were lost in Persia during the centenary'air race, is revealed in Cathcart-Jones’ air memoirs. Cathcart-Jones states that, when they realised they were lost; it seemed such a waste of life-do land.on a lonely stretch of sand, remote from every, human habitation. “ Ken wds on the point of asking me to nose-dive, rather ..than make a forced landing. . . • . . “ A little later I could hardly believe my eyes when-I. saw lights, andiound a small village with,a nice fat railroad. It was a miracle. ' We landed without crashing;’'’ .
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Evening Star, Issue 21903, 14 December 1934, Page 1
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121AIRMEN LOST IN DESERT Evening Star, Issue 21903, 14 December 1934, Page 1
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