GALLANT FEAT
PILOT SAVES PLANE ABLAZE IN MID=AIR COOL & RESOURCEFUL ACTION. LUCKY ESCAPE FOR CREW OF SIX. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, June 10. A crew of six of an R.A.F. bomber had a remarkable escape, to which the coolness and resource of the pilot contributed, when the machine burst into flames at 4000 feet when flying over Leicester.
The starboard engine caught fire and the blazing machine was watched by thousands of people, whose attention had been drawn by the flames.
The crew of the plane debated whether to take to parachutes, but the pilot turned off the petrol and eventually the air rush blew out the fire. The pilot then restarted the other engine and landed at the Leicester airport. \
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 7
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126GALLANT FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 7
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