DROPPED LIKE STONE
PLANE IN AIR POCKET FLOODS IN IRAQ (Elcc. Tel. Copyright-United Press Assn.) (Times Cables.) I Received May 24, 1 p.m.) ' BASRA, May 22. An Indian mail air liner dropped like ti stone from 4000 ft. with the engines stopped to within 400fc, of Lake Hammar owing to it being caught in an air pocket as the result of atmospheric conditions due to the Iraq Hoods. This is among the experiences of a Bagdad pas senger from Basra. lie adds that the engines cut out, as the petrol was temporarily not reaching them owing to the velocity of the fall. Luckily they functioned in the nick of tune when the pilot anticipated I hat a forced descent on the water was inevitable. The whole countryside presents a most remarkable spectacle. Fully one-third of the distance. 350 miles, is inundated, and the railway is broken m two places, where a mile of track litis disappeared. Cultivators are laced with enormous iosses. . . The Hoods stretched to the horizon,, interspersed with liny islets of grain snicks. 'the Euphrates is falling, but no benefit is possible down stream til! the volumes of Hood water are drained oil the numerous depressions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16958, 23 May 1929, Page 8
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