MODERN TRANSPORT.
INTERESTING INCIDENT.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYfiiGHT,
Received 1.35 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. IS. Two business men. flying from Rotterdam to London in an Imperial Airway aeroplane, remembered, in the middle of the journey an important omission in business at Rotterdam. They passed a note to the pilot, explaining the situation and asking him to return to Rotterdam. The pilot wirelesslv telephoned to the pilot of a Royal'Dutch aeroplane flying from London towards the English coast en route to Rotterdam, asking if he had room for two passengers. The Dutchman replied yes, and both ’planes landed at Lympne, where the business men transhipped to the one outward bound. —A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 9
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111MODERN TRANSPORT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 9
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