UNSUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 5

UNSUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS

TWO ATTEMPTS TO CROSS ATLANTIC EAST TO WEST EFFORTS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) Australian Press Association. —United riervice) PARIS, 13th July. Two Atlantic flights started from Le Bourget. One 'plane contained the Polish airmen Idzikowski and Kubali and the other was occupied by the Frenchmen Costes and Belloutes. POLES FAIL IDZIKOWSKI KILLED IN FORCED LANDING AT SEA LISBON, 14th July. The Polish aviators failed to make Ilorla, where a special landing place was lit up throughout the night. They were forced down at sea owing to engine -trouble near the Island of. Graciose. Idzikowski was killed. Kubali was rescued. The machine was wrecked. " : . POLISH AIRMAN BURNED' TO DEATH i LISBON. 15th JuVy. : When the Polish machine crashed at Graciosa, the tank exploded and Idzikowski was burned to death in the wreckage. The body is shipped to Warsaw. Kubala was badly burnt and sent to hospital. COSTES TURNS BACK SHORTAGE OF PETROL FEARED (Australian Press Association) LONDON. 14th July. A message from Yiliai oiiblay states that Costes landed. Costes explains that strong head winds 300 miles from the coast reduced the speed from 125 to 40 or 50 miles an hour, and he turned hack for fear of his petrel running out in mid-ocean. He did not. dream thai the East-West crossing was so difficult. lie would" lather fly from New'York to Paris ten times than once from ' Paris to New York.