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.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570430.2.56
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162AIRLINER FREED ON TARMAC Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.