TERRIBLE ORDEAL
’TWLEVE IN; BLAZING PLANE.
(By Telegraph—-Per Press Association.) 1 '' ’ ‘ • / . V ' ' : BRUSSELS, October 20.
There was an unprecedented scene when an neroplane, which was flying on the Belgian coast, took fire. A Roman Catholic Priest was aboard, and he pronounceß Absolutions lor the Dying when it seemed that nothing could save him and the eleven otliers from death.
The machine was carrying twelve members of the Belgian Touring Club from Antwerp to Ghent, when at the height of, one thousand feet, the carburettor burst into flames. Convinced that, sll hope was gpne; the passengers begged the Priest for absolution, and while he Vas in the. act of imparting absolution, the pilot struggled fpr mastery of the machine, and made' a skilful landing on the coast. All were clear, when the petrol tank blew up, and the aeroplane war destroyedThe terror of the ordeal turned one passenger’s hair white.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 5
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149TERRIBLE ORDEAL Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 5
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