TERRIBLE ORDEAL ALOFT
PRIEST ABSOLVES OTHER PASSENGERS THOUGHT PLANE DOOMED United P.A.—B 21 Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association Reed. 1.50 p.m. BRUSSELS, Sunday. There was an unprecedented scene iu an airplane which was flying along the Belgian Coast. A Roman Catholic priest pronounced absolutions for the dying when it seemed that nothing could save him and the 11 other passengers from death. The airplane was carrying 12 members of the Belgian Touring Club from Antwerp to Ghent. At a height of 1,000 ft., the carburettor went on fire. Convinced that all hope was gone, the passengers begged for absolutions, while the pilot was struggling for mastery of the machine. He made a skilful landing on the coast, and all aboard just got clear when the petrol tanks blew up and the machine was destroyed.
The terror of the ordeal turned one passenger’s hair white.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 799, 21 October 1929, Page 9
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