AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

AUSTRALIAN PLANE ASTRAY.

DESTINATION IS UNKNOWN

(Australian Tress Association.)

'SYYDEY, June 6. An Australi,an-made Jones monoplane., piloted by Roy Mitchell, with the owner, Mr L. R,‘l. Jones, as a passenger, left Quaker’® Hill, near Windsor, west of Sydney, yesterday (Sunday) morning. They set out ostensibly for a flight _.t.o* Bourke. and back. _ 2.... /They were expected'ijojue by mid* •bight but they have riot yet been Keen 'since,, The owner of the ground from which the flight was started, stated to-day that, for all he knew, they might have gone to New Zealand, but Pilot Mitchell's family think that this is unfikely, and they fear that an accident hais forced the plane down at some inaccessible inland spot. The plane was locally built. It behaved well in the, experimental flights but it had not been submitted to the Department for a certificate for airworthiness.

MISSING .PLANE FOUND.

SYDNEY, June 7

Mitchell’s missing aeroplane, cabled earlier, wa,s forced down at Stuarttown, 233 miles west of Sydney, damaged. Mitchell and Jones were unhurt,

AUSTRALIAN HOPS OFF,

ON FLIGHT TO ENGLAND

SYDNEY, June 6,

The young Australian airman, Weir, left Darwin at 6.30 o’clock this morning for Koe.pang, on his flight to England. He arrived at Koepang at 10.15 a.m.