NIGHTMARE FLIGHT.
PROPELLER BLADE LOST. Lord Burghley, on his return to London from Sweden, recently, described a nightmare flight in a threeengined ’plane with 12 passengers. An hour after leaving Copenhagen, the blade of one of the propellers came off, missing th© pilot’s nose by three inches. The strain wrenched one of the engines from its moorings, and it seemed to be hanging by a thread. Then it caught fire. The pilot cam© down, hit a telephone post, a shed, a fence, and a tree, and landed in a small field. Only ono passenger was injured. Lord Burghley completed th© journey in another ’plane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 27
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104NIGHTMARE FLIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 27
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