Girl Flier Safe

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 9

Girl Flier Safe

BEATING HINKLER’S TIME Karachi Reached Saturday LUCKY LANDING IN DESERT STORM

MISS AMY JOHNSON, wh< Australia, arrived at Ka: desert dust-storms. Her machine is going well Bert Hinkler’s time on his ret formance she is attempting to United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. noon. DELHI, Sunday. Miss Amy Johnson, who is attempting to fly from England to Australia in a Gipsy Moth airplane, arrived at Karachi, India, at 4.40 p.m. yesterday, after a six-days’ flight, thereby establishing a fresh record for the distance by a sole flier. She was then two days ahead of the schedule of Bert Hinkler, who holds the record for the quickest flight to Australia. Her most exciting experience . occurred betwen Bagdad and BunderAbbas, when she encountered an extremely violent sandstorm. She decided to land, but the, machine was blown about on the ground until she blocked the wheels with her luggage. For a time she could see only a few yards ahead, and when the weather cleared she found she had landed on the only smooth patch for miles. The airwoman said otherwise the journey down, the Persian Gulf was uneventful. At Bunder-Abbas she

o is flying from England to irachi after a trying time in 1 and she is two days ahead of cord Australian flight—a peri beat. found that a front strut-bolt in her machine was broken, but this was repaired without trouble. Between Aleppo and Bagdad the airplane was forced down by a gale and sandstorm, hut otherwise everything went well. Miss Johnson was a guest of the Commissioner of the Sind at Government House tonight. Miss Johnson left at dawn today for Calcutta, via Allahabad. INDIAN’S FLIGHT SINGH QUALIFIES FOR PRIZE DELHI, Saturday. Man Mohan Singh, the young Punjabi airman who had made several prior attempts, has arrived at Karachi from Croydon. He has won the Aga Khan’s prize for the first native Indian who made a solo flight from England. Another Indian, Aspy Eneineer, is expected to arrive at Karachi tomorrow, while a third Indian airman, Jehanger Tata, is flying to England, and reached jyexandria on Friday.