POST CROSSES ATLANTIC

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1933, Page 5

POST CROSSES ATLANTIC

LANDING MADE IN GERMANY DIFFICULTY AT KONIGSBERG FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD ALARMS OVER THE OCEAN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Berlin, July 16. Wiley Post made a perfect landing after a 15J hours’ flight across the Atlantic from America on the first stage of a round the world flight. The machine was refuelled and Post departed for Novosibirak in the afternoon. A thunderstorm compelled him to descend at Konigsberg and he will resume the flight early to-morrow morning. The Berlin aerodrome officials were amazed when Post, who seemed exhausted, announced that he wished to continue immediately. He refused to sleep while the machine was being refuelled. He said that very unfavourable weather had been encountered, with snowstorms as well as rain and a thick mist off Ireland. Once he was badly scared over the Atlantic when at 12,000 feet he saw ice forming on the machine controls, which might have been frozen, so just in time he descended to a lower altitude, where the warmer air thawed the ice. Post lost his way between Berlin and Konigsberg due to bad weather, and was forced down by leaky oil pipes. Rockets guided him to the Konigsberg airport. A later message from Konigsberg states that Post resumed his flight at 6.45 a.m. LITHUANIANS NOT REPORTED. ATTEMPT TO CROSS ATLANTIC. Rec. 10 p.m. New York, July 16. Darius and Girenas, the Lithuanian aviators who hopped off on Saturday on a trans-Atlantic flight, were not reported on Sunday, night after the scheduled time for their arrival at their goal.