PACIFIC AIR SERVICE
THIRD CUPPER ARRIVES . AUCKLAND, June 20. ..Guided into Whenuapai through thick low cloud by radio, the Pan American Airways’ clipper Mandarin reached Auckland this afternoon from San Francisco, completing the third outward flight of the new south Pacific service. Under the command of Captain B. S. Harrell the clipper carried eight passengers and. 8001 b of freight, most of which was a consignment of drugs for Australia. The clipper left San Francisco last Sunday and would have arrived a day earlier but for bad weather at Fiji on Tuesday. The aircraft could have landed at Nausori in spite of the wedther with radio assistance, but as the Sava radio was out Of commission the Clipper was held a day at Canton. The Clipper flew a few miles from its course, passing over Norfolk Island to familiarise the new crew with the emergency field there.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 6
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