CRASH IN ROUGH COUNTRY
SMITH AND SHIERS UNHURT MINIMUM LOAD INSUFFICIENT FLIGHT MAY BE ABANDONED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Bangkok, April 26 The Australians. Dave Smith and Walter Shiers, flying to England, were forced down in rough country 30 miles from the Siamese capital. The men were unhurt but a wing of the plane was broken and the flight may be abandoned. The plane had been .unable to take off fully loaded from Singora on the Malay east coast owing to the limited space at the aerodrome. The machine therefore had to start with a minimum load which proved insufficient to reach Bangkok.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1930, Page 9
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