CLIPPER TURNS BACK
LEAK IN ONE ENGINE [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 28. _ The Honolulu Clipper of Pan-Ameri-can Airways took off at 7.49 this morning from the company’s base at Mechanics Bay on the return flight to America. Twenty minutes later* when in the vicinity of Whangarei Heads, she turned back for Auckland, as a leak in the No. 3 engine was discovered..
Mechancs are now engaged overhauling the engine, and it is hoped that the Clipper will be ready to take off again at 7.30 a.in. to-morrow. When she left this morning the Clipper was carrying 12 passengers and about 3001 b of New Zealand mail and 14olb of New Zealand freight; also a quantity of through mail and freight from Australia, ,
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Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 10
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124CLIPPER TURNS BACK Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 10
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