CLIPPER ENGINE FAILS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 231, 8 September 1939, Page 4

CLIPPER ENGINE FAILS

ATLANTIC HOP- JXUI DENT PASSENGERS TOLD LATER NEW YORK, July 9.—The most dram Attic and significant incident of the eastern trans-Atlantic flight- completed l>v the Pan-American Airways Yankee Clipper last night- was one of which the many journalists aboard knew nothing until tolct of it by officials when the plane- reached! South-' amp ton. -Mr. Roy Howard, president of the Seripps-Howard newspapers, who was a passenger in the plane, cables from Paris that when the Clipper was some 809 niiles east of Newfoundland, one of the four engines was put out of .commission-.-,--. ■ x The'-' Tlftri"** breaking of the tlirotil'C rod controlling the petrol Passengers Unaware Sueli a break in a single-engined plane would have meant a forced landing on the sea. If. l veil in the ease of many multiengined planes, it would have entailed a return to the nearest land or a reduction in the speed, of the flight-. All that happened aboard the Clipper, however, and that without' I !)]ic nf> tlie* 19 passengers being any the wiser, was that- one of the- officers immediately climbed out- on to the “ca|-j walk” inside the huge wing anil installed a new connecting rod. Within 10 minutes the engine wasagain functioning normally. 1 jgss-".vC p-'y'x t . ..\