MISS JOHNSON’S FLIGHT
CO-OPERATION OF RUSSIANS. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Moscow, January 6. The Air Department, including experts on northern flights, conferred and drew up a route which will be recommended to Miss Amy Johnson to take via. Kazan, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Harbin and Mukden to Pekin. They consider the flight would be possible if the motor of the aeroplane were sufficiently heated, and have ordered landing fields to be prepared and stores of petrol deposited throughout the route. LIMIT TO RECKLESSNESS FLIGHT REPORTED ABANDONED. (Rec. 7 p.m.I London, January 6. A message from Warsaw states that Miss Amy Johnson has declared that she is going on, but is unable to say how far she would get. She is going to start for Moscow as soon as the weather permits. All the advice urging her not to continue “only makes me more determined to carry on. I recognize that there is a limit to recklessness; that limit might be Moscow.” The Warsaw correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Miss Johnson has abandoned the Siberian flight, and may proceed to Moscow.
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Southland Times, Issue 21288, 8 January 1931, Page 8
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