Amy Mollison Crashes On Record Flight Attempt.
Press Association— nonyrlsht. London, April 4. Mrs. Amy Mollison, after obtaining hard won permission from the officers of the Trans-Saharan Company to resume her flight from London to the Cape at night time, crashed at sunset, after a magnificent trans-desert flight under adverse weather conditions, says the correspondent of the Daily Mail at Bechar. Just as she was rising from the aerodrome the engine failed and the plane spun round and tipped up on one wing, severely shaking Mrs. Mollison. A landing wheel was broken and the tank damaged. Upon learning that, it would be impossible to repair the plane in time to beat the record, she decided .to await the reconditioning of the machine and then fly back to England. She expects to have to stay at Colomb Bechar for a week.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 100, 6 April 1936, Page 5
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