CLIPPER ENGINE FAILS
ATLANTIC HOP INCIDENT PASSENGERS TOLD LATER % NEW YORK, July 9. The most dramatic and significant incident o£ the eastern trans-Atlantic flight completed by the Pan-Americai Airways Yankee Clipper last night was one of which the many journalists aboard knew nothing until told of it by officials when the plane reached Southampton.
Mr. Roy Howard, president of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, who was a passenger in the plrfhe, cables from Paris that when the Clipper was some 800 miles east of Newfoundland, one of the four engines was put out of commission. The cause was the breaking of the throttle rod controlling the petrol supply. Passengers Unaware Such a break in a single-engined plane would have meant a forced landing on the sea. Even in the case of many multiengined planes, it would have entailed a return to the nearest land or a reduction in the speed of the flight. All that happened aboard the Clipper, however, and 'that without one of the 19 passengers being any the wiser, was that one of the officers immediately climbed out on to the “cat-walk” inside the huge wing and installed a new connecting rod. Within 10 minutes the engine was again functioning normally.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 10
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