A Lucky Landing
p. 41 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
PORT MORESBY, February 12.
THE new Dragon two-engined ’plane, to be used by Carpenter and Co., Ltd., on the goldfields service, flying from Queensland, arrived safely in Port Moresby at 2.30 p.m, on Friday, January 25, on the Kila Kila aerodrome.
Approaching the Papuan coast the pilot, Mr. Ferguson, who was accom panied by his wife, had some extremely alarming moments. With visibility bad and no land in sight, and petrol so low that another 20 minutes would find it exhausted, they feared disaster and gave up all for lost.
But their luck held. Land loomed ahead and the landing was made —on time, but with not a pint of petrol to spare.