AIRLINER ON FIRE
PILOT'S SKILFUL LANDING ALL ON BOARD RESCUED LONDON, Aug. 11. The Luxeuil correspondent of the British United Press says five British men and four women passengers owed their lives to the resource of the Heston Airport pilot, Captain D. Prowse, when the Airways liner operating from Croydon to Zurich caught fire at a height of 3000 ft. Nobody showed panic, though the flames enwrapped the cockpit and penetrated the cabin. The passengers remained seated and Captain Prowse put the machine into a steep dive and landed in a field at 120 miles an hour, smashing the undercarirage. The crew jumped out and handed the passengers to safety. All the baggage was burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23886, 14 August 1939, Page 10
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