FLYING FAMILY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 7

FLYING FAMILY

DESCENT ON ROUGH SEA.

NIGHTS SPENT IN A CAVE.

TANTALISING EXPERIENCE.

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.)

Received September 16, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 15,

Mr Hutchinson, tho leader of the flying Hutchinson family—who wero forced to alight on tho sea near Greenland when en route to Denmark from the United States, and who were rescued by the trawler Lord Talbot—wirelessing to the British United Press Association from Angmagssalik, says: “In endeavouring to pass under the bad weather we flew at an altitude of 50 feet between icebergs. The wind-shield was covered with ice and wo found that wo were unable to outride the gale, and therefore descended on the rough sea between the iceberg. The ice dented one pontoon and the crew wero quickly drenched. The anchor would not grip so we taxied ashoro. The children were not afraid; there were no sign of tears throughout the most hazardous moments. Tho party huddled together in a cave and spent two uncomfortable, bitterly cold nights until the last of the fuel was used as the flare that attracted the Lord Talbot.

“The party earlier had the tantalising experience of hearing messages from searching ships to which they were unable to reply owing to the swamping of tho machine damaging tho transmitter. We boarded the lifeboat as a hugo iceberg crashed in fragments on our ’plane.” A message from Angmagssalik says that tho Hutchinsons are departing for England to-day aboard the Lord Talbot.

AVOIDING ARCTIC VINTER

LONDON, Sept. 16. The Daily Herald, anxious to save the flying family from the rigorous Arctic winter, has arranged for the Lord Talbot to bring them to Thurso whence they will entra.in for London.