DAMAGED PLANE GOT SAFELY HOME
PART OF WING TORN OFF ((Recd. 6.30 p.m.) London. Nov. 29. A flight-lieutenant and a sergeantobserver brought off a remarkable feat flying a Beaufighter 300 miles with three feet knocked off the starhoard wing, and then landing safely at their base in the Western Desert. The pilot of another Beaufighter. who comes from New Plymouth. New Zealand, shared the triumph by leading the damaged plane home. The flight-lieutenant said: “I was st railing lorries in west Cyrenaica, when I saw I was heading for telegraph wires, but had not noticed a
telegraph pole until there was a grinding crash, which took off a slab of the wing. A New Zealand pilot saw I was in dilliculties and led me home. It would have been impossible to navigate in addition to Hying the plane. The New Zealander said: “1 would not have thought it possible that they would get the plane home, but I hung around thinking its crew would need me to go down and pick them up.”— U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 283, 1 December 1941, Page 5
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