The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-24
Still Suffer From
 That Tragic Crash
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 accounts for our petrol supply giv- ing out. Our petrol was low-we didn't dare do anything but come down."
 To physicians, he said the trip had been much worse than we had anticipated"
 Thirty stitches were taken in the cuts covering Mollison's face and head.
 Although they are suffering from shock" staff physician re- ported at 9 a. m. today, they are both remarkably cheerful, and their conditions are satisfactory" Their twin notored biplane, "The Seafarer." appeared over the unlighted Bridgeport airport at 10 o'clock last night, 39 hours after 1t took off from Pendine Sands, to carry Britain's most famous flyers on their greatest adventure" Sunday 1t raced down the North Atlantic coast, after successfully negotiating the treacherous east west Atlantic crossing. At Floyd Bennett field, New York, 30,OO0 people waited.
 The plane circled the field. Tiny Tasker, its manager, thought the pilot was about to land with the wind, g. procedure disastrous on q field so small. Fred Moelier, Northeastern Air Service pilot, has tily went aloft, then landed against the wind. The example had no ef- feet. Mollison, who was piloting the Seafarer, brought it down with the wind. His ground speed was 65 miles an hour and 1t carried him over the field boundary into | the swamp.
 Airport attendants, racing across the field to the wreckage, heard Amy's voice:
 Hello. there .. Hello, therer" They found her sitting on the ground beside the wreckage. Mol lison was stretched out on his back unconscious and his wife held his head on her lap. At Bridge port hospital 30 stitches were taken in Mollison's forehead to close long gash. Amy's left hand was cut. Both were slightly bruis- ed.
 They were both highly nervous and both were exhausted. They spoke of their flight in uncommun- icative monosyllables and went to bed without giving an interview with the scores of newspapermen assembled at the hospital. They told Dr. I. L. Harshbarger, staff surgeon. that they encountered head-winds and fog for most of the Atlantic crossing and it was much worse" than they anticipated. They had hoped to reach New York but nearing Bridgeport and realizing they had gasoline for only few more minutes in the air, decided to land.
 Mollison was in such a nervous state that hospital attendants gave him drink of whiskey. He gulped 1t down and made wry face.
 That's awful stuff," he exclaim- ed. "but 1t won't stop me from having another"
 Amy, after her finger had been bandaged, asked for a cigarette. | Thereafter, untiF nurses led she and her husband off to & private suite. she busted herself in duck ing photographers who were try ing to get pictures.
 Harshbarger said Mollison told him Amy flew the plane for a good part of the flight but that he was at the controls when the landing | was made.
 The surgeon said MoIlison's larg- CT cuts were across the forehead and the bridge of his nose. He was given a local anesthetic while | being treated. As soon as his wounds were dressed the flyer call ed his London manager by trans- Atlantic telephone to inform him of the accident. Then the flying couple were put to bed and Mol lison, because of his highly nerv-
 The extent of damage to the ous condition was given an opiate. mined more fully today when 1t 1t lowed from the swamp to the airport. First examination showed wrecked plane was to be deter and one of the two engines was that one wing was nearly torn off nose of the ship, containing dual loosened from it's mountings. The operating controls, was shattered.
 The crash was the second mis- hap on the Moliison's. current flight venture from London to New OIh lToh STOyuOH AeTOurOmc, London, the Seafarer cracked up and they had to wait until 1t was repaired. They finally flew from London to Pendine Sands, Wales, Saturday after brief stay there took off on the over-water hop.
 Both Mollison and his wife have long list of individual achieve ments in aviation. This was the first venture together. Last year Mollison flew alone from Portmar- mock, Ireland, to New York. Mrs Mollison formerly held the Eng iand-to-Australia flight record and also made a record flight from England to Cape Town, South Ali. rica. They met after both had achieved fame as flyers, and were married four months later. They are the beloved of the British pub- lie much as the American public esteems Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Souvenir Hunters
 stratford, Conn.,, July 24-(UP) -Guarded by . cordon of police to keep of souvenir hunters. the damaged "Seafarer" of the nyine Mollison's still rested today In the marsh into which 1t fell last night as MntIison 'tso tired he couldn't