AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22121, 27 November 1933, Page 7

AVIATION

COLONEL AND MRS LINDBERGH LAS PALMAS, November 24. (Received Nov. 25, at 5 p.m;) Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh have arrived at Las Palmas (Canary Islands). AIR ROUTE OVER ATLANTIC. ; . MR MOLLISON’S OPINION., ■ NEW. YORK,November 24., (Received Nov. 25, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr and Mrs Mollison have returned from a brief rest at the'Bermudas, and will sail for England to-morrow. After viewing the location Mr Mollison the opinion that the transatlantic air route via the Bermudas and the Azores is preferable to the northern route which is now under consideration by the British ‘ and American air transport interests. . . DISASTER IN CHINA. WRECKED ON FIRST TRIP.. SHANGHAI, November 24. The worst disaster in civil aviation in China, though not attended by fatalities, occurred when \ a huge f Sikorsky amphibian, carrying two pilots and seven passengers, crashed on the heights of Ghusan Island, in' Hangchow Bay, in a dense fog. It was the plane’s inaugural passenger flight, ■ The machine, after striking, the rockbound coast, somersaulted, thrice, ending in a mass of twisted wreckage, from which the occupants, badly injured, ■ were extricated. ' The Countess of Carlisle, niece of-the BritishtMinistcr, Sir Miles Lampson, had both ankles broken. Mr Reynalds, the American Consul at Foochow, was badly injured.' ,