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AIRLINER FREED ON TARMAC

(N.Z. Press Association~~.Copyright) CLONCURRY (Queensland),

April 29. A 8.0.A.C. Bristol Britannia airliner was freed yesterday from the Cloncurry airstrip, into which one of its wheels had sunk yesterday. The wheel gouged into the tarmac during Refuelling of the Britannia, which had been diverted from its London-Darwin-Sydney route to pick up the injured pilot of a Flying Doctor Drover aircraft. The pilot was taken to Brisbane, 1300 miles to the south-east, by another plane. Jacking equipment was flown from Sydney to Cloncurry after three tractors and a bulldozer had failed to free the Britannia. The Britannia, undamaged, flew to Sydney today. It was expected to take off again tonight for London, 24 hours behind schedule. The 60 Sydney-bound passengers of the “Whispering Giant” had been flown on 12 hours earlier by another 8.0.A.C. plane. The pilot of the Drover K Captain Richard Pauli, is in a serious condition in a Brisbane hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries.

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 8

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AIRLINER FREED ON TARMAC Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 8

AIRLINER FREED ON TARMAC Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 8

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