DARWIN FLIGHT
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT. AIRM EN’S EXPER TENGES ROME, Feb. 23. Flight-Lieut. Leslie Hamilton and Flying-Officer Coupland, interviewed in hospital at Ruvo, state that they will not continue their journey, and are returning to England after a few days’ recuperation. They say they flew into a blinding snowstorm on Friday evening, and struck a rocky mountain side, smashing the wheels of their machine. They were forced to remain all night long on the mountain, enduring agony from the terrible cold. Next morning they shouted incessantly for help for an hour without avail. They found an empty cottage, and some peasants came to their assistance, and took them to a farm where first aid was rendered. Hamilton was bleeding at the mouth and nose, and Coupland w r as badly bruised. Meanwhile, the- aeroplane lies buried in the snow. An attempt was made by a number of Italian soldiers to dismantle the aeroplane, but the snow was so thick that they found the task impossible. The airmen left Lympne Aerodrome recently on a flight to Darwin and back to England.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 47, 25 February 1932, Page 7
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179DARWIN FLIGHT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 47, 25 February 1932, Page 7
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