AIRMAN’S ORDEAL
CRASH IN A FOG DISCOVERED BY CHANCE NEW YORK, Sept. la. Harold Neff, air mail pilot, left Cleveland on Friday night with 400ib. of mail matter. lie became lost and was not found until he had been without food and water for 60 hours. At midnight he reported by radio that everything was “0.K." Then there was silence, and no trace of him was revealed, in spite of a wide air search, until Monday night, when three hoys hiking through a swamp 10 miles from Jackson, Michigan, found him semi-con-scious and with a broken leg and arm. The aeroplane was wrecked, but the mail was intact. Neff said that shortly after his last report he encountered fog, and flew bv his instruments for an hour. Then he essayed a landing, believing that lie was somewhere near Chippewa, Ohio. The machine struck a tree. Unable to move, he wrapped himself in the folds of his parachute.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18211, 5 October 1933, Page 5
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