ALMOST A DISASTER
MAfL PLANE SHOT DOWN
PILOT'S MASTERLY LANDING
(Received May 27, 10.45 a.m.) ' BILBAO, May 26. Rebel' Heinkel fighting planes shot down a British-made Airspeed Envoy plane carrying mails. The five passengers, including a : woman, were slightly injured. The.pilot, Galli, who was taken to hospital; made a masterly landing, averting a complete disaster. J ■The plane, which belonged. to Air Pyrenees, a French air line, arid was oi^rating in the Bayonne-Bilbao air service, came down at Sopelana, nine miles from' Bilbao and was partly destroyed. Rebel aircraft had previously chased the machine, but it always out-distanced them.
Galli said: "I became aware of being followed by insurgent planes, but I was not-disturbed because the plane was 'clearly marked 'air-Pyrenees,' but later I became hemmed in by insurgent machines, whioh opened heavy machine-gun fire. My wind-screen was cracked and I suppose the glass injured "my head. The"" passengers flattened themselves on the floor. The engines failed as I was searching for a landing place. I lost consciousness the moment the plane touched the ground."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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175ALMOST A DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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