WEATHER STOPS DO.X TRIP
ATLANTIC FLIGHT UNLIKELY CAPTAIN REFUSES TO TAKE RISK PASSENGERS’ DISAPPOINTMENT, By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Paris, Nov. 20. “I refuge to take responsibility for dying in tills weather,” is a message from Captain Christiansen, of the DO.X, which is still moored in Gironde River, twenty miles from Bordeaux, to the passengers waiting at the hotel. The passengers agree the weather is unsafe but nevertheless they are disappointed and believe no attempt now will be made to fly the Atlantic. As the Do.X hag taken fourteen days from Friedrichshafen that is taken to indicate the unwisdom of experimenting at this time of the year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1930, Page 9
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