SENSATIONAL ESCAPE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3742, 10 June 1932, Page 5

SENSATIONAL ESCAPE

From an Aeroplane Cinsh CAUGHT IN A FOG PILOT’S FORCED LANDING MACHINE IN FLAMES GALLANT RESCUE WORK By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received June 1 O', 10.15 a..m.) "Sydney, June 10. An aeroplane, piloted by F Ashley, with four passengers, ' crashed this afternoon and within ;lire,, minutes it wa = a heap of smouldering; ruins. HOW IT HAPPENED Details show ti’iat Ashley was enveloped in a, fog for several hours and eventually tQed to make a forced landing as hig,.petrel was nearly exhausted. Whcc, lie crashed in a wheat field Ashley was stunned and bleeding •from wounds in his Lead and arms. He dragged hint-elf from tho seat and succeeded in rescuing tlie passengers, including two ladies, before tlame s reached that part of the cabin in which they were trapped.