LANDING MADE IN FIELD
Fight Against Fogs All Way To California (Received 15, 1.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 14. The Soviet flyers landed in a cow pasture at San Jacintocal, a leaking petrol line having exhausted their fuel. They fought against fogs all the way to California, and landed at 2 a.m. on Thursday, New Zealand time. They then flew non-stop approximately 6626 mileS in two days 14 hours six minutes. The flyers were not aware that there was a large army airport only 20 miles from where they landed. Army planes immediately flew to the pasture, stationed a guard over the plane and brought the fliers to the army field. Gromov eaid that they encountered three cyclones en route and were compelled to use the oxygen tanks for 26 hours, due to high altitudes. The single motor functioned perfectly.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 152, 15 July 1937, Page 5
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