PILOT CRISP
SAVED BY SAFETY BELT PLANE IN TREES j SALAMOA, Dec. 22. Pilot Donald Crisp, who crashed while flying from Salamoa to Wau, related his experiences in an interview to-day. He said that a midday on Sunday ho encountered a storm and down currents prevented his plane rising, and when the crash occurred %ver Bitoi Gorge, the engine, cargo, and forepart of the cabin of his plane fell 70ft. His safety belt, held him to the rear portion of the plane, which remained suspended to trees. At 0 p.m. he descended, and, after being unable to attract the attention of passing planes by waving from the tops of trees, which he climbed, he returned to tin* ground, and on Monday shot at the petrol tank, anticipating that a fire would attraet the attention of the Salamoa and Lae planes searching for him. His matches were wet, but, gathering up fragments of cargo, he eventually made a -(ire. The down currents, however, dispersed the smoke and his signals were unsuccessful. ’He made a rough shelter on Monday night, but intense cold was followed by a storm. On Tuesday morning, he walked until he found Reyna>Ms.’ camp at Black Cat at midday. From there runners were dispatched 0 acquaint the search parties. I ■ - . ITS
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 7
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