YOUNG AVIATOR CRASHES
ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA ATTEMPT. EXHAUSTION OF THE PETROL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, March 29. Mr. H. L. Brooke, of Harrogate, Yorkshire, a young airman with less than one year’s flying experience, who yesterday left Lympne aerodrome at dawn on an attempt to lower the England to Australia solo flight record of 7 days 3J hours set up last year by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, crashed at Genohlac, in the Cevennes Mountain. He broke an arm and was bruised. The plane was destroyed. The crash was due to the failure of petrol. The district is a mountainous one in Southern France. It was five hours before he was found by a peasant and received attention. Mr. Brooke was using the British lowwinged monoplane “Heart's Content,” in which Mr. J. A. Mollison made his first solo east to west flight across the Atlantic. A later message says Brooke declares he is uninjyred, but that his machine is wrecked. '/ ’ ' / • ■ f
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1934, Page 5
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