AIR LINER’S ESCAPE
A SUDDEN DROP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) BASRA, Dlay 22. ' The Indian mail air liner dropped like a stone front 4000 ft. with the engines stopped, to within 400 feet of Lake Hammer, owing to it being caught in an air pocket, the result of atmospheric conditions, due to Iraq floods.' This is among the experiences of a Baghdad passenger from Basra. He adds that the engines cut out, and the petrol temporarily not reaching them owing to the velocity of the fall. Luckily they functioned in the nick of time when the pilot anticipated a forced descent on the water was inevitable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1929, Page 5
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113AIR LINER’S ESCAPE Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1929, Page 5
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