BERTRAM TO START AGAIN
MONOPLANE BEING DISMANTLED. STOWAWAY SENT TO AUSTRALIA. , • • ’ ■ ,t- ■- By Telegraph— Rec. 11.20 p’m. Sourabaya, Dec. 1£ . Captain Hans Bertram’s monoplane, which was damaged when he was taking off on another stage of his flight to London, will be dismantled here, and h e will return to Darwin for a fresh start after the record. The whole of the undercarriage was wrecked. The stowaway, John Dobson, aged -20, who was bom in Tasmania, declares he had no special object in the flight except that he was anxious “to make a nice, trip.” He never thought of endangering the lives of the pilots. The police are sending him back to Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 4
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113BERTRAM TO START AGAIN Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 4
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