Plane Defies Monsoon
(Received 12.30 p.m.) BOMBAY. July 17
‘•Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Thomson Glover, a British resident of Cashmir, who is ill, reached Karachi, intending to catch the Imperial Airways machine for England, which was damaged in the collision.
■ In view of the nature of his illness. however. he was advised to travel by sea. for which reason he flew with his wife from Karachi to Bombay in a Royal Air Force 'plane, which made a GCO miles flight through monsoon weather, enabling them to embark on the Maloja. It was the first time passengers had landed at the aerodrome during a monsoon.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1938, Page 8
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