Lost in the Air.
AVIATOR AND PASSENGER.
EXPERIENCE EXCITING TIME.
[By Eleotkio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association. I (Received 8.0 a.in.) Loudon, December 17.
Salmet, an aviator, accompanied by Mrs Assheton Harhord, left Folkestone on Sunday morning and crossed the Channel. A stiff south-wester was blowing, and he ran into hanks of fog and lost his sense of direction.
Descending nearer the water, he discovered from the position of a fishing smack that he was being blown at right-angles to his proper course. After correcting his direction, he found he was making little headway, and having only a tiny amount of petrol left, he decided to descend to the water near a pausing steamer. Through a break in,the fog, he saw the ship and tried vainly to reach it. Then a shadow loomed up in the south, and he headed for it and landed.
He was at Dieppe, but thought he was at Boulogne.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 92, 18 December 1913, Page 5
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153Lost in the Air. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 92, 18 December 1913, Page 5
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