PILOT UNCONSCIOUS
ORDEAL FOR WATCHERS NEW YORK, July 1. An aeroplane with an unconscious girl at the controls circled crazily over Annarbor airport, Michigan, for an hour as hundreds of spectators watched in fascinated horror. Joan Tesh, 19-year-old amateur flier, then revived and made a crash landing uninjured. She then collapsed from shock.
The girl fainted shortly after she took off from the aerodrome, but the monoplane’s rudder and elevators jammed in a position which kept it flying in erratic circles at the same altitude. An instructor went up to investigate in another plane and saw Joan’s unconscious figure in the pilot’s seat, but was helpless to do anything.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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