AVIATRIX RESCUED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 439, 3 December 1930, Page 7

AVIATRIX RESCUED

MRS MILLER’S FLIGHT

LANDED IN THE BAHAMAS

PICKED UP BY FISHERMEN

[By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] Received Dec. 2, 7.35 p.m. NEW YORK, Doc. 1. According to a telegram received by her mother, the aviatrix, Mrs Miller, is safe. A message from Nassau (Bahamas) states .that Mrs Miller arrived there. She made a thrilling forced landing in a gale oh Friday at Andros Island, in tho Bahamas.

Mrs C. S. Beveridge states that she received a telegram from her daughter, from Nassau, saying she was safe, and asking that her friends be notified. Aviation circles are puzzled as to why Airs Millei ended her flight in the Bahamas. The assumption would be that she was blown eastward, but aviators say that the winds on Friday blew strongly from the east. Details of the landing are difficult to, obtain. Captain Lancaster said at Miami that he had been advised by Airs Miller’s mother that the aviatrix had been forced to use a collapsible rubber raft after landing, and was picked up by a fishing boat. The slowness of the craft presumably accounted for the length of time required to get the rescue story to tho world.

LANDED ON ISLAND CONTRADICTORY REPORT The story of a forced landing on a barren Bahaman Island, as related on Monday night by Airs Miller, was brought to Nassau by a fishing bo.it from Andros Island, where she landed on Friday. Airs Aliller said she ran into a heavy gale shortly after she hopped off on Friday. The compass on the ’plane was at fault and she was blown badly off her course. The severity of the weather and lack of gasoline forced her to land in the bush five miles back of Kemp’s Bay on Andros Island. She walked to Kemp’s Bay, where she was given food and shelter. Commissioner Forsyth at Andros Island helped her to obtain a small boat, which brought her here. Her ’plane is not damaged and she hopes to fly to ATiami on Tuesday.