AIR MAIL PLANE
RETURN TO DARWIN. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Darwin, January 28. The Quantas mail plane, Diana, was flown back to Darwin by Captain G. Allen. The propellor of the Quantas plane Apollo, which is at present at Darwin, was taken to Port Stuart and fitted to the Diana. The Imperial Airways air liner Athena, which brought the Empire air mails, attempted a night flight from Koepang to Darwin on January 16, and ran into a storm overnight, being blown far off its course. The pilot wirelessed distress messages, which were picked up in Darwin, saying: “I believe I am lost. The petrol is almost exhausted.” Finally he was forced to land at Point Stuart, sixty miles east of Darwin. The machine was not damaged. A Quantas plane, the Diana, immediately began a search, and located the Athena early in the morning, but the former damaged a propeller when landing, and immediately transferred petrol to the Athena, which completed the journey to Darwin.
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Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 5
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