AMY’S ADVENTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 10

AMY’S ADVENTURE

ESCAPE EEOM DESCENT IN SEA LONDON, Nov. 10. k Miss Amy Johnson had a narrow escape from* making a- forced descent- m Urn North tfea when Hying from London to her homo at Hull yesterday atteinooil. .Describing her adventure, she said “When I left- London the fog was fairly thick, so I decided to climb out of it. At last I found myself flying pi beautiful sunshine at 6000 ft. ‘‘When I got to what I thought was somewhere near Hull there was nothing for it hut to come down through the fog. As I canid down the light gradually faded, until at 500 ft. I was flying in pitch, darkness. I ciupe down a little lower, and then, to my hprror, I saw not land but the white caps of the waves of the North Sea. “T. flew round and round in no everwidening circle in the hope that I mightseo land, and then to my relief I saw some twinkling lights. I approached them and found that they were the lights of a liner. “I decided to come down in the sea near tho liner and l swim for it. I had taken off my shoes and opened the door of the aeroplane -wlien I saw- another light farther away. “I flew towards it and to my intense relief found Quit 1 was over land once again. I circled the light and'fouud that it was on the little pin-point of land off Spurn Head. 1 landed safely’ on the only piped of .soft sand there was.” ' Miss Johnson reached Hull by motorcar and train. Coastguards word last night keeping watch' on her aeroplane.