Said “ We Like Our Home in the Sky ”
AND THEN THEY CRASHED PILOTS HAVE MIRACULOUS » ESCAPE United Press Association.-~By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 8.6 pan. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. A message from Syracuse (U.S.A.) says that a few minutes after the pilots signalled 44 We like our home in the sky. We don’t know when we 'll come down, ’' a 50-horsepower monoplane in which * Ilarcld Alien and Merrill Phoenix 3©t a world endurance record for light aircraft, crashed into Lake Onondage. The pilots, who had been aloft for 106 hours were not injured and they scrambled from the sinking plane through the open w‘ Meld and swam ashore. They explained that the motor stopped while they were changing plugs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 6
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