Emergency Landing
Saturday 26 June 1943, The Sydney Morning Herald
CAR HEADLIGHTS GUIDE PLANE Emergency Landing ARMIDALE, Friday. - A con- centration of motor car head- lights enabled a lost Wirraway aircraft to make an emergency landing on Armidale aerodrome last night. The aircraft was sighted at 8.30 p.m. It circled low over the town for about 20 minutes, dropping flares in the main street, and other areas. More than 60 cars raced to the aerodrome, which has no landing lights, and the Armidale radio station, 2AD, tried to contact the aircraft. Eventually, guided by car headlights and torches, it landed three yards from the wind indicator. The occupants, a pilot-officer and a sergeant from a northern training centre, said they only had petrol left for another 10 minutes in the air. They had become lost, on a training exercise, and had not known they were over Armidale.
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