COLONEL LINDBERG
PLANE TURNS TURTLE. ALL RESCUED SAFELY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.} SHANGHAI, October 2. Colonel Lindberg’s monoplane, while taking off from Yangtze to-day, overturned throwing Lindberg, his wife and a Chinese doctor into the water. All were rescued in a launch from the British aircraft carrier “Hermes”. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Hankow.
Lindberg for the past fortnight has been assisting the Nanking Government aerially surveying the flooded areas. He was preparing for another survey and when taxing the plane it dipped hurling the occupants into the water. Lindberg hopes to he able ’to repair the plane and continue his world flight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 5
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