AMY JOHNSON LOST IN STORM.
TELLS HOW MISTAKE TOOK HER TO LIEGE. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Received January 3, 1.15 p.m.) „ COLOGNE, January 2. I almost think that large sign boards should be placed on all river sides to guide lone flyers,” said Miss Amy Johnson facetiously, referring to her adventures yesterday, when heading for Berlin from Stag Lane Aerodrome. She encountered terrific head winds and decided to make for Cologne. She mistook the Meuse for the Rhine and flew, along the river’s course. Finally she found herself above Liege in the late afternoon and consequently landed. To-day, after a delay of six hours, owing to customs and other formalities, she departed for Berlin. She met atrocious weather and a head-on gale made the reaching of Berlin before dark an impossibility. Accordingly, she turned back to Cologne, half frozen but cheery. She says that if conditions are favourable she will cut out the call at Berlin and will fly direct to Warsaw.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 5
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