AERIAL NAVIGATION.
MATTHEWS’ FLIGHT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association/) WELTER-FEEDEN, Friday. Captain Matthews stayts on Saturday morning for 8a1i... ..He goes tlicnce to Bima, which he expects to leave tor Timor on; Monday moDi;ingi:.(:. • A FORCED LANDING. LONDON, Thursday. Lieutenants Parer and Mclntosh,, eablino- from .Moulmein, state that they are now out of hispit-al, and the . repairs to their machine are nearing completion, but they must await a now propeller to complete, the new undercarriage and fusolage being built at the site after the crash. Their message!states: —“We had decided to land in the sea, when a rift in the cllouds showed jus Moulmem dose at hand. The exhaust manifold •bad burst in our faces, and our clothes wore burned. The impact of the forced landing at a speed of eighty miles an hour knocked us unconscious. Had we crashed we would have killed many of the crowd.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14099, 17 April 1920, Page 6
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