COURTNEY RESCUED
PLANE CAUGHT FIRE FORCED INTO ATLANTIC (United P.A.—-By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and JST.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Thursday. The liner Minnewaska found Captain F. T. Courtney, the transatlantic flyer, on Thursday afternoon. The plane was drifting helplessly, with the radio sputtering occasionally. The airmen were picked up 766 miles south-east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, out in the Atlantic. The plane was abandoned. In his wireless message, which was picked up by the Minnewaska, Courtney said they had a terrible experience. The machine caught on Are at midnight at an altitude of 1,500 feet. They landed in flames on a rough sea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1
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104COURTNEY RESCUED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1
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