A Handley Page _two-engined! aeroplane belonging to the Imperial] Airways, travelling from Croydon to Paris with ten passengers (five! men and five women) a pilot and mechanic, came down in the English Channel last Thursday afternoon, owing to engine trouble, about ten miles from Boulogne at 1.10. All on boned were saved under remarkable clreumstanees by two Folkestone fishing smacks, which were operating within four miles of the scene.
They owe their lives to the conlness with which they acted and the nificent airmanship of the pil rructed by the pilot, Captain F, Dismore, they climbed calmly through the windows and the emergeney exits in the roof of the passenger cabin, and crawled along top of the fuselage towards the! tail There they sat, partly counterbalanting the weight of the two engines between the wings forward, and thus kept the air-liner floating for some minutes upon an even keel before the tail lifted. The plane sank five minutes after the pi Sengers had been taken off by txo Folkestone fishing smacks that had raced to the reseue—with other ips and acroplanes—following the pilot's S. 0, S. from the air. consignment' of platinum worth £2,000 was lost, bur the mails were saved later when the wreckage re-Jappears. A Pomeranian dog was drowned,
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