NARROW ESCAPE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 February 1929, Page 9

NARROW ESCAPE

LATE EDITION

COLONEL LINDBERG’S MISHAP PLANE CRASHES WHEN LANDING HIS FIANCEE A PASSENGER. f (tmiteu i*rcss Association —By Bk.ciric Telpgrup** vo^yngui.^ xicaa Aasuc-utiun.; Received 1,30 p.m. to-day. xviEXicG (Jii'l, Feo. 27. Colonel LurclDeig, wnen returning to the Vuibueno hying Jb.e(d from a flight over tne neignoo wring volcanic peaics wnfcli ins fiancee, bjuss Anne Morrow, crashed waite landing alter a trnrty foot run. 'JL-nei aeropiane overturned,, tout neitner occupants isufferect injury except tnat Colonel lhnabeirg received a sJughtiy bruised wnst, He toidi tide liorror-stricken onlookers, “1 have: nettling to say.” He tiien explained tiaat be bad landed in an adjacent field where be dropped one wheel!, as be toot oft’. He tnen proceeded to Vaiibueno, where the machine tipped over when trying to land on one wheel. He added tlxat it was not an accident, but a mishap.” He and Miss Morrow picked themselves up and went to an automobile and departed for Mexico Oity. Colonel! Hind berg was paile and worried, and his fiancee appeared to be very nervy, but neither wished to talk.