MISHAP TO AIR LINER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 5

MISHAP TO AIR LINER

FOUND SURROUNDED BY FRIENDLY ARABS.

WIRELESS MESSAGES JAMMED BY SEARCHERS' SIGNALS.

CAIRO. Dec. 31. The Imperial Airways liner Travelling from Baghdad to Cairo, was missing since last Thursday, when i wireless message from the machine stated that the petrol supply was exhausted, hut a eafe landing had been made. A search party found it sixty miles from Rutba. The passengers. including women, were all well. They were taken"'to Baghdad hv a returning machine.-—A. and N.Z.C.A.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 1. Shortly after the departure of the air force machines to seek the missing air liner. Captain Warner, flying an Airways machine, who had searched all night, wirelessed that lie had found the liner surrounded hv Arabs offering the passengers water and proffering assistance. Captain Warner supplied the air liner with petrol, lack or which had caused the descent, enabling it to reach Tut hah. Captain Warner conveyed the passengers and mails to Baghdad. It was disclosed that the liner’s wireless was working well but the messages were not heard because they were jammed by the multiplicity of messages from neighbouring stations and the machines- engaged in search.—A. and N.Z.C.A.