DIVE TO SAFETY
AIR LINER TAKES FIRE IN MID=AIR PILOT SHOWS PROMPT RESOURCE. NINE PASSENGERS AND CREW ESCAPE. By Telegraph— F’ress Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. A British Airways liner made a forced landing at Luxeuill and caught fire. The nine passengers escaped. The Luxeuill correspondent of the British United Press says five British men and four women passengers owed their lives to the resource of the Heston Airport pilot, Captain D. Prowse, when the Airways liner operating from Croydon to Zurich, caught fire at a height of three thousand feet. Nobody showed panic and though flames enwrapped the cockpit and penetrated to the cabin, the passengers remained seated. Captain Prowse put the machine into a steep dive and landed in a field at 120 miles an hour, smashing the under-carriage. The crew jumped out and handed the passengers to safety. All the baggage was burned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 7
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151DIVE TO SAFETY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 7
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