Hurley Forced Down Without Landing Permit
Reed noon. BUNDER-ABBASSI. Thurs. Captain Frank Hurley, in the plane Spirit of Australia, left Karachi at daybreak on Wednesday for Bushire. After proceeding 100 miles he met storms, and experienced engine trouble. Even ~u ally he reached Bunder-Abassi. Persian officials intimated that the party had no permit
Officious Persians
(United Service) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association)
to land, and ordered them to leave as soon as possible. An armed guard has been placed in charge of the plane. Bunder-Abbassi is a seaport town of Persia, on the Persian Gulf, near its entrance, about 12 miles north-west of the island of Ormuz. It was a place of great commercial importance under Abbas the Great. Its name signifies I “Harbour of Abbas.’’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 513, 16 November 1928, Page 9
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