AIR FLYING.
By E|cdvih Telegraph—Copy‘a 11 *.)
CAPE TO CAIRO FLIGHT. ■ ROME, February 7
Pendagd, mechanic, of oiie of the British aeroplanes making the flight the Cane of Good Hope was decapitated by the screw while attempting to release the machine from the mud when leaving Bvinctisi,
FLIGHT TO, AUSTRALIA
FORCED TO LAND. SYDNEY, This Day
Matthews cables from Bander Abbis (at the entrance to the Persian Gulf) on the Bth, stating that he left (near the head of the Persjap Gulf) at djiwii on the 3rd for Karachi direct-, a distance of 1,120 miles. He struck a blinding sandstorm after flying , 300 miles, and was forced to land on shelving bench,.2o miles west of Bander Abbis in a cross wind travelling 40 miles per hour, also high tide was running. We crashed and the machine was badly damaged, but we are trying to repail here.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1920, Page 3
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