HURLED 100 FEET.
HOW r AIRMEN CRASHED
PARACHUTES NO USE
LONDON, Aug. 6. “Carr passed me a warning note, saying we could not rise above two thousand feet,” said Flying-Officer E. C. Dearth, who with Flight-Lieut. Carr crashed on the Danube last Wednesday while attempting a non-stop flight ilo India, telegraphs the special correspondent of the Daily Mail. •‘We adjusted our parachutes and safety belts. The country was mountainous and densely wooded. My last entry in the log was: ‘Water is honing, and spurts off steam from engine are blinding.’ “Then the engine stopped dead, and we discarded our parachutes because it was too low to use them. We almost immediately struck the Danube at 80 utiles an hour. “I was hurled out, somersaulting 100 feet and puncturing, a lung, though externally I was not injured. I thought my back was broken, because I could only swim with my arms. “Carr, who was shot out when 60 feet from the river, helped me to reach the ’plane and held me until the boat-' men arrived.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 222, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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175HURLED 100 FEET. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 222, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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