CRASHED INTO A LAKE
AMERICAN MONOPLANE PILOTS ESCAPE INJURY NEW YORK. Sept. 7. (Received Sept. 7, at 10.55 p.m.) A message from Syracuse says that a few minutes after the pilots signalled “ We like our home in the sky and don’t know when we’ll come down,” a 50 h.p. monoplane in which Harold Allen and Merrill Phoenix set a world endurance record for light aircraft crashed into Lake Onondaga. The pilots, who had been aloft 106 hours, were not injured and scrambled from the sinking plane through an open windshield and swam ashore. They explained that the motor stopped while they were changing plugs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23599, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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