MISHAP TO WORLD FLIERS.
LIVES SAVED BY THICKNESS OF SNOW.
STRUGGLED TO FARMHOUSE AT DAWN.
'.By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This D’av, 9.15 a.m.) ROME, Feb. 23.
Snow three feet deep broke the force of the crash and probably saved the lives of Flight-Liout. Leslie Hamilton ■and Flying Officer Coupland, who struck •a hillside in a snowstorm in the Apula district in Southern Italy, Avhcn they .were endeavouring to break the England- flying record. The airmen sat on what remained of the cabin and awaited the dawn, when they saw a house in the distance. They struggled across the snow to it, and the farmer came to their rescue.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 5
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