Aeronautics: Babe & Petcock

Two small children, two women and a man comprised the party which engaged Pilot Eddie Stafford to fly them from Miami to Nassau. B. I. one day last week. When the plane failed to reach its destination by night searching planes set out, found the missing party on Andros Island

(flamingo and bonefish) in the Bahamas, safe & sound but out of gas. Pilot Stafford's story: "The baby turned the petcock and allowed the gasoline normally pumped from the main tanks to the motor, to be pumped instead into emergency tanks and into the...

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