AIR LINER IN A TREE
While touring the Orkney Islands with a pilot and live passengers, a Highlands Airways air liner came down in a tree at Rotisay as a result of a "down draught" from a hill. The machine was left suspended, and ladders had to he hoisted so that the passengers could climb down. Nobody was hurt apart from a few scratches. "The machine was engaged on a twohour tour of the Orkney Islands," an official of Highlands Airways explained. ■"The pilot decided to make a forced landing owing to strong down wind from a neighbouring hill, it was exceedingly difficult country, and part of his machine caught the branches of a tree. He came to rest with the machine's tail suspended eight feet from the ground."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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129AIR LINER IN A TREE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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