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FLYERS TO AUSTRALIA MISHAP THROUGH AIR POCKET SUDDEN DROP INJURES PILOT. ’PLANE CONTROL REQUIRED. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. ROME. Feb. 19. Flight-Lieutenant Leslie Hamilton and Flying-Officer R. K. Coupland, who are making a flight from London to Darwin and back, lelt for Athens after arriving fifteen hours late. The machine dropped like a stone for 1000 feet after passing Genoa. Ihe contents of the plane were hut led against the ceiling, stunning the juloc. Hamilton, and catting the beads ol both. , . .. , Hamilton recovered and climbed and swerved to avoid tho snowelad lulls. They landed in a deserted emergency flying field at Crosseto, where the\ spent the night.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 February 1932, Page 5
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