Gibbes Airways Pune In

Emergency Unding

Rabaul, June 29.

A GIBBES Airways Lockheed Lodestar, which left Rabaul on June 26 to carry a score of time-expired labourers to the mainland, made a forced landing on the seldom-used Jacquinot Bay airstrip, and was slightly damaged. The plane’s radio had cut out; the weather was threatening; the pilot could get no report from Lae; so he made this emergency landing. Mr. Gibbes later landed along side the Lodestar in his Norseman plane, and reported that the strip was quite usable, and the Lodestar would go to Lae for repairs.