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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11406, 6 January 1931, Page 5

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AMY HAS MISHAP NORTH OF

MOSCOW

UNDERCARRIAGE SMASHED

GALLANT AVIATRIX UNHURT

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. CooyrigK*.) (Received Jan. y, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, Jan. 4.

Amy Johnson made a forced landing near the village, of Krasnosielky, near Pultusk. sixty miles north of Warsaw, smashing the undercarriage. She herself was unhurt. She should have started at 9 a.m. on her non-stop flight to Warsaw, but the weather delayed her until 10.30 a.m., when the rain ceased.

The aerodrome officials urged Amy to fly the southern route via Breslau, enabling good landing grounds to be reached if the' weather became worse.

But, as it would take seven hours compared with four by the direct route, Amy chose the latter, saying, as she entered the plane cheerfully and confident : ‘I may turn round if it gets worse.” She encountered extremely bad weather and adverse winds, which forc.ed her northward and she misled the way to Warsaw. Before she got hack on her course the fog forced her to descend on rough ground.

The absence of news of her whereabouts caused considerable anxiety in Warsaw, where largo crowds waited at the illuminated landing ground until long after darkness. .The anxiety was dispelled by Amy telephoning that she was all right, and that she was leaving the -plane and going to Warsaw by train.