A Plane's Emergency
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Landing In Samoa
i to a 140 degrees deviation in the ol compass of the automatic pilot, Pan ican Airways Clipper "Glory of the ' got off course on a flight between Nadi and Canton Island on April 12, and 1 made an emergency landing at Faleolo, irn Samoa. It is believed in Sydney by officials that the pilot chose this air in preference to Tafuna in Eastern Samoa arly used by PAA DC4s) because of the • approach, Tafuna being hugged closer fountains. ! airport at Faleolo is used seldom these and by nothing larger than a DC3. NZ on officials would not allow the Strato r to take off again with passengers. A
PAA DC4 went from Nadi to ferry the pas sengers to Canton, where "Glory of the Skies", which took off successfully empty from Faleolo, met them.
The passengers suffered about 24 hours delay but were not in danger. By the time that the landing at Faleolo was made, the aircraft was three hours overdue at Canton.