PLANE FALLS 1000 FEET BUT PILOT AVERTS CRASH
ROME, Saturday. Flying Lieutenant Hamilton and Flying Officer Coupland left for Athens after arriving here fifteen hours Iate. Their machine dropped like a. stone for 1000 feet after passing Genoa, and the contents of the plane were hurled against the ceiling, stunning the pilot (Hamilton) and cutting the heads of both men. Hamilton recovered consciousness, climbed, and swerved to avoid a snowclad hilltop, and landed in a desefted emergency fiying field at Crosseto, where the airmen spent the night.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 154, 22 February 1932, Page 5
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87PLANE FALLS 1000 FEET BUT PILOT AVERTS CRASH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 154, 22 February 1932, Page 5
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