UNLUCKY HURLEY CRASHES IN GREECE
AIRPLANE SMASHED —ADVERSID' STILL FOLLOWS FLIGHT (United Service) Reed. noon. ATHENS, Monday. Captain Frank Hurley, who was attempting a record flight, from Australia (which he left on November 5) to England, crashed while leaving the Tatoi airdrome. The machine was almost destroyed and the airmen were bruised. Captain Hurley writes: "After conquering a gale which swept the Mediterranean we landed at the Athens airdrome in mud and slush, and decided we must leave immediately or remain
indefinitely. The plane was just gaining speed when we struck a boggy stretch. The wheels sank and we avoided a headlong crash into a ravine. “We hopped the chasm, but the wheels hit the high hank with terrific force. The machine somersaulted, landed on its back, and was wrecked. We wriggled out from the wreckage with minor cuts and abrasions. “We are determined to see the job through. The Spirit of Australia survives. We propose to secure a new machine in England which will cost £7,500. We feel confident that our countrymen will stand by us.” Hurley has had bad luck all the way. He. has met adverse weather by land and sea, and for four days he was held up at Bunder Abbasi by officious Persians.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 9
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