SIGHTSEEING FLIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 6

SIGHTSEEING FLIGHT

PLANE REPORTED OVERDUE.

LANDING MADE AT KARAMEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. A cross-country flight by Mr A. Green, with his brother as passenger, in a West Coast United Aero Club s Tiger Moth yesterday afternoon, caused some anxiety at aerodromes in the top half of the South Island, as a result of the machine being reported overdue and unsighted en route. MiGreen. who arrived from Wellington during the morning, took off from the Blenheim Aerodrome for Greymouth at 12.10 p.m. and was last noticed by the ground staff heading towards Picton, in a directly opposite direction to his destination. When at 3.30 he was reported from Greymouth as being overdue, radio inquiries were made by Blenheim to all air radio stations likely to supply information. At 4.30 it was reported that the plane had landed on the beach at Karamea. over sixty miles north of Westport, due to petrol shortage. Evidently the pilot decided to make a sightseeing tour of the Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay districts instead of taking the direct route yia Tophouse, which would have occupied only two hours, the range of the plane being about three hours. It is understood here that Mr Green completed the trip to Greymouth late yesterday afternoon.