AFIRE IN WID-AIR
AVIATOR’S ADVENTURE. SERGEANT’S WONDERFUL PLUCK. .5. LONDON, August 24. An Air Force sergeant pluckily prevented disaster to a huge troop-carrying aeroplane and a crew of seven who were on a P training flight. The aeroplane was 5000 ft up when tie petrol leaked and the carburettor burst into The ser weant snatched up a chemical extin guisher, crawled out on to the wing, c to the strut at a perilous angle, and nlaved the liquid on to the flames. The pilot meinwhile descended cleverly and banked in order to enable the wind to carry the flames away from the machine: The fire was extinguished before the landing was made.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19271, 8 September 1924, Page 7
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