A NARROW ESCAPE
AIR CHIEF AT SYDNEY FORCED DESCENT ON SEA (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyrightl SYDNEY, Tuesday. The fact has just been revealed that Air Chief Sir John Salmond, of Britian, narrowly escaped a crash while he was flying from Sydney to Brisbane on Sunday in a Supermarine airplane. Immediately after the start the plane was passing over Manly, when a wireless aerial depending from it struck the side weather-board of a house and also broke the electric light wires. The residents in the house say a terrific report followed and the electric supply was interrupted in the locality. Eye-witnesses state that the plane was very low and appeared to be hardly able to rise clear of the houses. The machine alighted on the sea off Manly, presumably for an overhaul, and then proceeded on its journey. It reached Brisbane in the afternoon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 9
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142A NARROW ESCAPE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 9
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