BOMBER IN TROUBLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1940, Page 3

BOMBER IN TROUBLE

ALMOST FORCED DOWN IN GERMANY NONCHALANT AUSTRALIAN. NO DESIRE FOR ERSATZ SAUSAGE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 30. An exciting adventure befel one of the British aircraft during last night’s attack on Berlin, when it became iced up as it approached the German capital, flying at a great height. The aircraft developed a flat spin, and in order to lighten it the pilot let go his bombs. The spin persisted and the crew were warned to get ready to abandon the aircraft. It was not until the bomber’s traling aerial was wrenched off by contact with the ground that the pilot succeeded in getting the machine under control. Describing the experience on his return to England, the pilot said the crew were not at all keen on the idea of descending over Germany. He added: “My navigator, who is an Australian, told me he didn't want to have to eat ersatz sausage for breakfast for the rest of tile war. He seemed quite confident that we should pull out before we hit. He pointed out afterwards how sick we should have been if we had jumped and .then seen the aircraft recover and fly off without us.”