YOUNG FLIER SAFE
RESUMPTION OF JOURNEY
DELAYED BY PETROL SHORTAGE
CAPETOWN, Nov. 21 The agent for the Shell Oil Company at Gao, French West Africa, lias cabled to his headquarters that Victor Smith, the young South African airman, who had been missing about a week in the course of his flight from Capetown to Croydon, reached there safely and left again this morning.
Smith landed at Dori, 500 miles from Jebba, where he was last seen at 2 a.m. on Tuesday of last week. His compass was evidently faulty, and lie missed Niamey by 100 m'les.
Mr. Richard Store, who accompanied Miss Peggy Salaman earlier this year on their record-breaking trip from England to Capetown, was about to leave in Mrs. Mollison's machine, Desert Cloud, in which she recently broke the record, to search for Smith when the announcement was made that he had been located near Gao.
I'll© young fl'.er ran short of petrol but replenished his tanks after a two-day tramp through the bush. He then continued his flight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11
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