CRASH IN FRANCE
YOUNG BRITISH FLIER SUFFERS BROKEN ARM MR. BROOKE'S MISFORTUNE AEROPLANE DESTROYED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 30. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. March 29 A message from Paris states that the young Yorkshireman, Mr. H. L. Brooke, who left Lympne at dawn yesterday on an attempt to fly to Australia in record time, crashed at Genolac, Cevennes. The flier broke one arm and was badly bruised. .His aeroplane was destroyed. A British official wireless message says the crash was due to a shortage of petrol. The scene of the accident is a mountainous district in Southern France. It was five hours before Mr. Brooke was found by a peasant and received atteution. The injured man has had less than one year's flying experience. He had hoped to lower the England to Australia flight record of seven days three and a-quarter hours set up last year by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. His machine was the British low-winged monoplane " Heart's Content," in which Mr. A. J. Mollison made the first east to west solo flight across the Atlantic. Mr. Brooke thought his flight would be useful practice for the Centenary race to Melbourne in which he had hoped to compete.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 11
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199CRASH IN FRANCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 11
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