LINDBERG CRASHES
; BUT NOT HURT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright'. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27. Colqnel Lindberg, when returning to Valbuena. Flying Field from a flight over lieighlvouring volcano peaks, -with his fiancee, Anne Morrow, crashed in landing after a thirty feet run. The aeroplane overturned, hut neither suffered injury except that Lindberg received a slightly bruiseu wrist. He told horror-stricken onlookers: “I have nothing to say.” He then explained that he landed in an adjacent field where lie dropped one wheel as he took off. He then proceeded to Valbuena where the machine tipped over when trying to land on one wheel. He added that it was not an accident hut a mishap. He and Miss Morrow picked themselves up and went to an automobile and departed for Mexico City. Lindberg was pale and worried and his fiancee appeared very nervous, but neither wished to talk.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1929, Page 5
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