VENTURESOME FLIGHT
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER & HIS WIFE ' - TWICE FORCED DOWN BY STORM. CRASH NARROWLY AVERTED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr R. G. Casey (Federal Treasurer) and Mrs Casey were twice forced down by a storm which they tried unsuccessfully to fly round. Finally they were compelled to abandon their plane in a small paddock at Carlsr/the. They. were flying from Canberra to Melbourne. Mr Casey was piloting the plane. On the second forced landing, due to heavy banks of low cloud, a crash was narrowly averted, Mr Casey having to pull the machine abruptly into the air again tb skim a barbedwire fence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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110VENTURESOME FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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