VICTOR SMITH SAFE
FAULTY COMPASS CAUSES DELAY DEPARTURE FROM GAO. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) Capetown, November 2!. The young South African airman, Victor Smith, aged 19, for whom some anxiety has been felt when on a flight from Capetown to England, has landed at Deri, 500 miles from Jebba. where he was last seen at 2 a.m. on Tuesday. His compass was evidently faulty, for he missed Viamey by a hundred miles. A message from London states that the Shell Oil Company’s agent at Gao cabled headquarters that Smith departed in continuation of his flight this morning.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3448, 22 November 1932, Page 5
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