NOTED GERMAN PILOT
CAPTAIN KOEHL DEAD FEVER OF ATLANTIC BERLIN, Oct. 8. The death has occurred of the transAtlantic flyer, Captain Hermann Kochi. In the summer of 1927 Captain Koehl was selected as one of the pilots of the Junkers aeroplane Bremen, which was to attempt the Atlantic flight. On (March 26, 1928. the Bremen suddenly arrived at Baldonnel aerodrome, Dublin, to attempt the ocean flight, having on board Captain Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld, who had spent most of his capital in the purchase and equipment of the machine. The flyers waited for favourable weather until Thursday, April 12, when they set out for New York at 5.30 a.m.
Early on the Saturday news came to hand that at noon on Friday the Bremen had been forced down 'by a gale and snowstorm and lack of petrol on Greenly Island in Belle Isle Straits, between Newfoundland and Labrador. The two men had thus achieved in 35', hours the first east-to-west flight of’ the Atlantic by aeroplane. They were rescued by the crew of an icebreaking steamer dispatched by the Canadian Government.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 5
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