FLIGHT TO CHINA
MISS AMY JOHNSON’S ADVENTURES.
ATROCIOUS WEATHER ENCOUNTERED.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 3, 1.15 p.m. ' COLOGNE, Jan. 2.
“I almost think that large signboards should be placed on all river sides to guide lone fliers,” said Miss Amy Johnson, facetiously referring to her adventures yesterday. When heading to Berlin from Stag Lane- Aerodrome she encountered terrific head winds and decided to make for Cologne. She mistook the Meuse for the Rhine and flew along the river’s course and found herself above Liege late in the afternoon. Consequently, she landed to-day. After a delay of six hours, owing to Customs and other formalities, she departed for Berlin. She met atrocious weather and a headon gale, which made reaching Berlin before dark an impossibility. Accordingly she turned back to Cologne half frozen, but cheery. She says that if the conditions are favourable she will cut out the call to Berlin and fly direct to Warsaw.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 8
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