Wireless Relieves Uneasy Minds

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 November 1928, Page 25

Wireless Relieves Uneasy Minds

AN OTHER instance of the service that may be rendered to the community by the co-operation of broadeast listeners and the broadcasting stations was seen in the case of the recent foreed landing of the "Old Gold" passenger aeroplane at Uraidla, a town in the hills near Adelaide. A broadcast listener living near the scene of the land-

ing telephoned 5CL immediately after the lunding. and stated that the aeroplane had come down in a rough paddock and was smashed. It was immediately recognised At 5QL that anxiety would be felt in the south-east for the safety of the passengers, who had embarked in the plane at Mount Gambier, and within a few minutes of the news being received at the studio, a car had left for the scene of the landing, with representatives of the station on board. . } Within an hour these representatives secured all the details of the landing, and telephoned the studio, This enabled 5C:L to assure the Mount Gambier listeners of the sufety of the passengers hours before most Adelaide people had even heard of the ’plane’s descent. Recently, too, 5CL was heard calling for medical assistance for a fever-stricken man at an inland constructional camp.