LOST HIS MAPS
AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR AT SOURABAYA ENGLAND FLIGHT RESUMED BATAVIA, Wednesday. Mr. A. T. Cunningham, the Australian airman whose attempted flight from Wyndham to England was interruxited by his forced landing on the island of Flores, Dutch East Indies, effected repairs to his machine and landed last evening at Sourabaya, Java, from Bima. The flier was seen and heard some time before he landed, but then he disappeared. A search was instituted and he was found at S p.m. on an oilfield south of Sourabaya. The rescue party found Mr. Cunningham under his airplane preparing to sleep there that night. He explained that he had lost his maps and had failed to locate the airdrome. Cunningham left Wyndham. on the north-west coast of Australia, for Bima early on the morning of August 5. That afternoon he made a forced landing at the coastal village of Boleng. on Flores Island, his machine being damaged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9
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154LOST HIS MAPS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9
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