May 15.
A. vivid description of their ght from New Jersey to Ireland was given the United Press in an inter~ view to-day by Captain George Pond, ce-pilot with Count Cesare Sabelli in their flight to Rome, their objective.
"We were flying blind about 23 hours," he said. "About 400 miles from the Irish coast we experienced engine trouble and we thought for along time it would be necessary to make a forced landing in the set "However, Sabelli climbed from the! cockpit and pumped oil into the engine, with his own hands aiding the hot mechanism. The plane had been descending dangerously but his work enabled us to rise again to safety.
"Afler a seemingly endless period of aimless fying, Sabelli sighted Iand. We consulted the maps and ree-agnized it as Ireland.
{twas the only land we saw since we left Harbour Grace. We had buffeted strong, variable winds during almost the entire trip."
Gas tank trouble forced the two tiers to land their Bellanca monoplane in a small field near here earlier in the day The machine was slightly damaged in making the landing but the aviators were unhurt, They landed at 30 pam. last _night—approximately 38 hours after they had hopped off from the Floyd Bennett Airfield, New Jersey.
Captain Pond and Lieutenant Sabelli accounted themselves the ucklest fellows alive, says Reuter.
They had been forced to descend owing to a defect in the ptrol supply and had imagined themselves fying over the ocean. Through rift in the clouds, however, they spotted a number of houses and Tandgd a bare half-mile inland.
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