Hazards of Flying

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7009, 19 November 1932, Page 7

Hazards of Flying

Amy Has Forced Landing DOWN WITH DEFECTIVE OIL PRESSURE IN ANGOLA United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 17. Amy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), who is on a flight to Capetown, has cabled her husband (whoso record she was attempting to heat): “Made forced landing at Benguella. No oil pressure. Doubt if rectifiable thcro.”

Benguella is on tho coast of Portuguese West Africa (Angola) and 1500 miles by air-lino from Capetown.

Victor Smith Still Missing’ SILENCE FOP, 70 HOURS. LONDON, Nov. 17. There has been no news for 70 hours of Victor Smith, the 19-year-old South African who left Capetown at midnight on November 12th, in an attempt to beat the air record to Croydon, and who has been missing sinco he loft Duala, in Nigeria, at 3.40 p.m. on November 14th for Gao, in French West Africa.

Tragic Premature End of World Flight “SPIRIT OF FUN’’ STRIKES TREE AT VICTORIA FALLS. PILOT KILLED, PASSENGERS SLIGHTLY INJURED. CAPETOWN, NOV. 17. The American plane, “Spirit of Fun,’’ crashed at Victoria Falls. The pilot, Captain Dickson, was killed. The two passengers, Loew and Rosthal, were slightly injured.

The plane flew from Hong Kong to Johannesburg in seven days, arriving on Friday last; and started to-day on a dash to London. It had trouble in taking off from the sand; it str.--' a tree and made several somersaults. Dickson’s throat was cut in the crash.