LOST AIRMAN DISCOVERED
FORCED LANDING IN AFRICA. British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 21. .Victor Smith, the young South African airman who, in attempting a record flight from Capetown to England, made a forced landing in an isolated part of French West Africa, was reported safe to-day, after being missing for a week. The Shell agent at Gao, in French North-West Africa, has cabled his headquarters that Victor Smith, wlio is living from Cape Town to Croydon, departed this morning. A Capetown message states that Smith had landed at Dori, 500 miles from Jebba, where he was last seen at 2 a.m. on November 14. His compass was evidently faulty and he missed Niamey by 100 miles. The aviator Store was about to leave Capetown in Mrs. Mollison’s aeroplane to search for Smith when the announcement was made that ftmrth had been located near Gao, where he ran short of petrol but replenished his supply after two days’ tramp through the bush. He had made a safe forced landing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 8
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