GREAT FLIGHT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10510, 11 February 1920, Page 5

GREAT FLIGHT

CAIRO TO GAPE PROGRESS OF THE COMPETITORS* Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and S.'/j. Cable Association. LONDON, February 8. Captain Cookerell (Vickers-Vimy) loft Assouan this morning for Khartoum. Colonel von Ryneveld has arrived at Solium. The DHI4 machine, flown bj lieutenants Cotton and Townsend, arrived at Le Bourget on Friday. MECHANIC'S TRAGIC DEATH, (Keuter'c Telesram.J •S ROME, February 7. Pendant, mechanic for one of the British aeroplanes making the flight to the Cape, was decapitated by a propeller while attempting to release the machine from the mud when leaving Brindisi. " ROME TO TOKIO FLIGHT. ROME, February 8. The leading machine in the Rome to Tokio flight landed in the Syrian desert, owing to adverse weather. The Bedouir chiefs are entertaining the aviators. TO AUSTRALIA. rX>ROED LANDING FOR CAPTAIN MATTHEWS. SYDNEY, February 10. Captain Matthews cables from Bun« der Abbas on the Bth: "We left Bushiro at dawn. on. the 3rd for Karachi direct, a distance of 1100 miles, but struck a blinding sandstorm after going 300 miles. We were forced to land on a shelving beach twenty miles west of Bunder Abbas, in a cross-wind: of forty miles an hour, and at high tide. We crashed, and the machine was badly damaged, bub we are trying to repair it bere.. Both well."