LADY BAILEY MISSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 9

LADY BAILEY MISSING

NO NEWS IN SPAIN HIGH WIND AND RAIN PERSISTENCE IN STARTING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 30, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID. Jan. 29 The British airwoman, Lady Bailey, who is returning to England after an unsuccessful attempt to lower Mrs. Mollison's record for (he London-Capetown flight, has been missing since she left the San Xavier aerodrome, near Cartagena, at 10 a.m. on Friday. She persisted in starting in spite of high wind and rain.

Lady Bailey left England on January 15 on a flight to Capetown. She intended to make an attempt to lower the record of Mrs. J. A. Mollison of four days ten hours. She reached Oran (Algeria) and left the same day. She started from Oran in spito of a temperature symptomatic of influenza and was later reported as missing. A search of the desert was made and Lady Bailey was found by French airmen near Tahoua, in the Niger region, where she had been forced down through lack of petrol. Apparently she had drifted eastward 30 miles for every 100 miles headway she had made, and she was 1450 miles from Oran when rescued. She then set out to return to Oran, en route to England, but she lost her way and landed at Inssalah instead of Reggam. Thence she flew to Ardor over a clearly-marked route. Lady Bailey left Oran on the return to England on Thursday.