SNAKE IN PLANE
American Pilot's Adventure
In Australia
RESOURCEFULNESS TESTED Rec. 2 p.m. SYDNEY, this day. An American pilot at an undisclosed operational base was bitten by a poisonous snake while fiving at 3000 feet. He became so ill that he was forced to make a landing on a clay pan, where he remained all night. He treated his legs with hot mudpacks and next day cut two saplings so that he could operate the plane's foot pedals with his hands, and managed to fly his machine back to his base. How the snake got into the plane is a mystery.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 5
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101SNAKE IN PLANE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 5
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