DAMAGED ’PLANES
TEMPORARY SERVICES. Received July 18, 7.30 p.m. KARACHI, July 17. Five passengers and the mails which were aboard the East-bound flying-boat Corio, which was involved in a collision with the Cooee, were brought here by the Circe, which is continuing the journey to-morrow. A relief ’plane from Alexandria has arrived at Basra and is expected at Sharjah in the evening, taking on .vest-bound passengers and mails tomorrow. The two ’planes which collided were moored alongside each other when a violent gust of wind drove the wings together, causing superficial damage. BY AIR FROM SEA JOURNEY FROM INDIA BOMBAY, July 17. Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Thomson Glover, a British resident of Kashmir, who is ill, reached Karachi intending to catch the Imperial Airways machine for England, which was damaged in the collision at Sharjah between the two flying-boats, but, in view of the nature of his illness, was advised to travel by sea. Consequently he was flown, with his wife, from Karachi to Bombay in a Royal Air Force ’plane which had made a 600mile flight through monsoon weather, enabling them to embark on the Malo ja. It \Vas the first time passengers had been landed at the aerodrome during a monsoon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 168, 19 July 1938, Page 7
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