The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Amy Johnson Comes Down
at CapetoWn After Peril
Gus $500 Mile Trip.
By United Press

! By United Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov.
3D. - Twenty -year-old Amy
Johnson MolliSon arrived here at
$50 p. m. (cape time today (7:3O
a m. central standard time) break
ing her husbands record for an
England-Capetown flight by 10
hours and 26 minutes, after haz-
ardous solo flight of 5000 miles
miles across sea, jungle, desert and
mountain. 1t was one of the most
dangerous air trips ever attempted.
Thousands who had waited at the
airdrome all night cheered Miss
Johnson.
Her husband, Captain James A
Mollison, made the England Cape
town flight in 4 days II hours
and 10 minutes, flying a different
route. His young wife's time was
4 days 6 hours and So minutes.
Miss johnson flew over route
surveyed by the British air minis
try, but considered too dangerous
for air mail. She crossed the Medi-
terranean, few over 1000 miles of
the Saraha, and over jungles and
mountains in which her light air.
plane might have been lost forever.
Keeps Record in Family
She kept the England Capetown
record in the foremost flying fam
lily" of Great Britain. Her husband,
Captain James A. Mollison, held the
former record, days II hours 10
minutes. He is the flying Scotsman
who flew the Atlantic in light
plane.
Miss johnson made a safe land
ing in contrast with that of her
husband, who was so dazed by loss
of sleep that the lights of the city
and the airport confused him, and
he missed the landing field. Captain
Mollison landed on the soft sand
of the beach, and his plane turned
over.
Crowds began arriving at the air.
drome here before midnight, after
word was received that Miss John
son had been able to resume her
flight from Benguela, Angola, where
she was forced down Thursday.
Father KIondyke Pioneer
She indicated at Benguela in a
message to her husband, that she
might have to abandon the flight,
but her machine, the Desert Cloud
was repaired, and she continued to-
ward the cape, making her last stop
at MosSamedes, 1,400 miles away
from here.
Miss johnson, the daughter Of a
pioneer, who participated in the
Klondyke gold rush, and later set
tied down to become merchant at
Hull, England, left Lympne air.
drome at 6:37 a. m, Monday.
The first hop of her flight would
have been considered quite an
achievement by many aviators.
Thirteen hours after leaving Eng
land she landed. at Oran, Algeria,
after flying across Europe and
spanning the Mediterranean.
The flight from Oran took her
ever some 1000 miles of the Sa-
hara, with little chance that her
tiny plane would have been found
for days, if at all, if she had been
forced down.
Missing for Sc Hours
Miss johnson was missing" for
almost thirty-six hours on this
stage of the journey. as she flew
TO Gao, in French West Africa on
the upper Niger, instead of to
Niema, a camel post, where her
husband landed on his flight
The next stage of the flight was
1000 miles from Gao to Douala,
Cameroons, over forests and noun
tains in which her plane could have
been lost forever.
She reached Douala Wednesday
and started for MoSsamedes, out
was forced down by lack of oil pres
sure at Benguela, where it appeared
for a while that she would have to
give up the flight while still several
hours ahead Of her husbands rec
ord.