CHANNEL AIR LINER IN CRASH
LONDON, March 7. Eight passengers of a huge French air liner flying from Paris to London had a remarkable escape late on Tuesday when the machine crashed in a field near the Lympne airdrome in Kent. Baroness'Van Till Kavanagh of The Hague was cut in the face by glass, but the other passengers were uninjured. Trouble was experienced when the plane reached the French coast and its speed was reduced. Near the airdrome the left wing suddenly dipped and the plane spiralled rapidly towards the earth. It crashed and bounced several times after the wing struck the ground. The passengers were jolted all over the plane and the baggage tumbled about. Unconcerned, the pilot, Roger Maury, climbed out of the cockpit, opened the passengers' door, and all scrambled to safety, fearing the machine might catch fire as both engines were wrecked. Later Pilot Maury explained that a valve spring in one of the engines had apparently broken.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16623, 16 April 1928, Page 3
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