GALLANT RESCUE.
9WO AHtftfEN WERE saved: Bt C. T. P. ULM'S ESCAPE. ttW* COMUCSrOJTDEXT.) .YDNET, February 25. fact that tk«>petwH»a% y, broke away from the the critical moment Mr who flew to New Zealand modore 0. JS. Kingsfordr A; J. Kerr would have imcg when their machine enaion electric qsblea on «ad,near Melbourne, on Eye-witnesses said that it* been no hope for them id crashed with the torn nselagb. Strapped is the. ■en were in grave danger ah when the dry grass ei» aeroplanej sprayed by trol, took fire over a large* then that the courage of (urge, of Bichmond, and r E. J, Burge, saved the wo airmen. after the accident Miss ble to go to work because ( too badly burned. With she ran to the striken Dgh the burning grass and,* lames that flickered from by Mr Kerr. At half a rath .her father, she fought and' checked -it just as about the .smashed fusetbe two men were pinned ry of the crash was told who, with his two daughing along the road when came down. N Mr Burge here must have been . Tho aeroplane was rockHit he was unftble to say pilots were looking for a Certainly the machine ry low, and that in itself t all was not well. v: Flash of Flame. J liovo been all right bad or the wires," said Mr :roplanc struck the bottom irirc. Almost at once the >ut of the machine, and landed 50 yards ahead, linding flash of blue flame >plaae hit the lower wire, moment the petrol tank mo. I thought the poor {quo then; but just as the ?ed the tank broke away . biasing mass only four he fuselage. That saved I rushed to unstrap Mr u lying crumpled up in ■at for a moment or two I cek was broken and that Both men were pinned fuselage, and the clothes were alight in several urge explained how ho had of his daughter v,-ao dUir and no hesitation in i assistance of the men. [r Ulm io recovering from head injuries he received, :ame at a particularly "unJ for him for, ou bclialf of atioual Airways, ho was 0f negotiations for tho of a regular aerial mail aq Australia and England, received very little enl«\ this direction from the. amcnt, and is hopeful of from Mr Lyons.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 9
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