BOTH ANKLES BROKEN
AIRMAN CRAWLS FIVE MILES AID FOR INJURED COMPANIONS (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30. With both ankles broken the pilot of a crashed It.A.F. plane crawled across five miles of bog and ravines to get help for two members of the crew. The aircraft crashed in a fog on Friday on an I,Booft- hill in Derbyshire. For 20 hours two members of the crew lay injured, without food or water, until the rescuers arrived after a perilous journey. _ . One party of six rescuers with a sleigh found themselves oiling down the slopes of a gully and unable to stop. They let go the sleigh, which shot off into the gloom and crashed down a 50ft ravine.
The three airmeu were admitted to licsuital,
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Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 5
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126BOTH ANKLES BROKEN Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 5
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