FLYING HAZARDS
! PILOTS' BAD DAY FREAKISH WEATHER LONDON AND CONTINENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 13, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 12 The freakishness of the weather in Britain was intensified as the Easter holidays continued. Air liners between London and the Continent to-day flew alternately in brilliant sunshine and thick snowstorms, which caused many of the machines to be late, including an Air France liner which spent half an hour above Croydon before the abatement of a snow storm enabled the pilot to effect a landing. It was a nerve-racking day for pilots, some of whom passed into blazing sunshine with their machines covered with snow, and then re-entered sleet. Two British machines yesterday struck electrical storms. The wireless apparatus in one was disabled and the compass of the other was rendered useless. Both machines had to be landed, but the occupants were not affected.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22393, 14 April 1936, Page 9
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