AMY JOHNSON’S CRASH.
PLANE BADLY DAMAGED. PRESENCE OF MIND IN EMERGENCY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) , BRISBANE, Thsi Day. Later reports reveal that Amy Johnson’s crash was attended by more sellout possibilities than the first news indicated. It appears that her plane struck a barbed wire fence and the machine turned over after knocking down a ppst. Hho was travelling at about ton miles an hour when she hit the fence, two posts of which caught in the wings of the plane, which wont through for about five yards, stood on its nose and finished upside down. When men arrived Amy was lying on the ground. “The petrol is running out,” she said, “let me turn it off, I don’t want the machine to catch fire.”
AMY JOHNSON’S BROADCAST.
HEARD DISTINCTLY IN ENGLAND
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 29.
Amy Johnson’s typically English voice was plainly heard in England from Brisbane. The British Broadcasting Co-operation relayed her address.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1930, Page 5
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