OVER THE ALPS
NO TRACE OF HINKLER
THEORY AS TO FATE
(Received 19th January, 1.30 p.m.)'
. LATTSANOT3,/18th January. , Captain Hope, accompanied by M. Kammacher, director of the Lausanne airport, flew two hours and a.half over the <si<le valleys of the Rhone. Fog and cloud reduced visibility, and they had to return when snow began to falL
Mittelholzer, a leading Swiss airman, states that the day Hiukler began his flight the weather was bad over the mountains of the Valais' Canton. Hiukler would have had to ascend 15,720 feet in order to fly above the clubs. This was impossible owing to his heavy load of petrol. The Swiss airman thinks that Hinkler, owing to fog and clouds, lost his way, and, owing to his insufficient knowledge of the geography of the region, might have crashed into a mountain side. ' It was a thousand to one against a single aeroplane finding
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 9
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149OVER THE ALPS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 9
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