FORTUNATE ESCAPE
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER & PARTY FLIGHT IN BOMBER PLANE FORCED LANDING IN MOUNTAINS IN BAD WEATHER (Recd This Day, 10.30 am.) CANBERRA This Day. The Minister of Defence, the Hon I-I. C. V. Thorby, his secretary, Miss Kathleen Lyndon, and three other occupants of the Air Force Avro Anson bomber, had a remarkable escape from disaster in a forced landing in mountainous country, about 80 miles east of Albury.
The'pilot, Flight-Lieutenant Durant, brought the plane down in a small level area in the mountains, when a crash seemed inevitable, as he had been flying blind through sleet and dense fog for twenty minutes before landing. Mr Thorby and the others were told to don parachutes. "When we found the landing area the chances of our escaping a crash seemed a thousand to one against, said Mr Thorby. "Twice in an half hour we were in serious difficulties. We narrowly missed crashing into the mountains.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 7
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