AERIAL ASPECTS

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1932, Page 9

AERIAL ASPECTS

MRS MOLLISON IMPEDED

SNOW BECLOUDS MOUNTAINS.

FORMER REPORTS INCORRECT

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 16.

An incorrect early report that Mrs J. A. Mollison had left Oran, Algeria, on the last stage of her (light from Capo Town to London, caused a sharp lookout at French and British aerodromes yesterday afternoon.

Large crowds waited for hours at Croydon. Mr Mollison thinks his wife is now likely to arrive on Saturday morning. ►She cabled to him as follows: "Impossible to cross the Atlas Mountains owing to snowstorms. Am fed up and worried.”

AT ORAN.

ARRIVAL REPORTED,

(Received .11 a.m.) LONDON, December 16. It is now reported that Mrs. Mollison has arrived at Oran from Beni Ounif.

HECTOR SMITH’S MISHAP

MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 16.

When Hector Victor Smith, tho young South African pilot who started on a return flight to the Cape made his forced landing at St. Malo, he met with a serious mishap. When at a low altitude, his machine failed and he jumped from.it with a parachute. He landed safely, but tho plane was badly damaged.