SAFE LANDING
DAMAGED AIRCRAFT BRITISH PILOT’S SKILL CREW USE PARACHUTES RETURN FROM SURVEY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Unitiul Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12 noon RUGBY, Dec. 27. The hazards of routine reconnaissance which fall to the lot of the Royal Air Force are illustrated in the story of how a plane, damaged recently far from its base by an enemy attack, nevertheless reached home and made a safe landing. Its undercarriage and wing flaps were put out of action by enemy antiaircraft fire during a reconnaissance flight over the coast of north-west Germany. None of the crew was wounded and the aircraft was able to return safely over the North Sea.
The landing, however, presented a great difficulty owing to the dangei that it involved both to the crew and possibly also to civilian lives and property.
The pilot officer solved the problem successfully. He ordered the rest of the crew to descend by parachute and. after assuring himself of their safety, succeeded in landing the aircraft without any further damage.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 7
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171SAFE LANDING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 7
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