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 As Luck Would Have it

���On September 14th of last year a British seaplane, emerging from a heavy mist, struck the steel- lattice mast of a wire ess station on the English coast with such force that the front end of its body, with the engines became wedged in the lattice work. The P;^°t was stunned but did not fall and was rescued by sailors belonging to the station

��When the accident oc- curred, several sailors were painting the lattice work of the mast. One of the men climbed out on the wedged-in seaplane and rescued the unconscious pilot, lying on top of one of the wings, 300 feet above the ground. With the help of two other sailors the airman was lowered to the ground and escaped unharmed

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