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Czech FliesTo FreedomWith Family11fI:CVIENNA, Austria, — W — A|f Czechoslovak ex-pilot Saturday jh stole a two-seater from a hangar, j 3 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, packed';; in his wife, two children and af*j brother-in-law and flew to Aus- ( trin where he crash-landed and asked for political asylum. , lt;‘i am a bit out of practice,” !Janus Pavelka, 40/ apologizedto Austrian police for the landing mishap. His son, Janus Jr., 5, was slightly injured. jPolice said the other refugees I^ were Eva Pavclka, 35, Maria! Pavelka. 4, and Vaclav Panek.j the wife’s brother. \lPavclka told police he had tried p once before to flee his Communist home land to Austria-on foot— but was captured by sentries and sentenced to three years in pri-jl son by a Czechoslovak court.The family is from Nemecky Brod, about 60 miles from theAustrian frontier.Everybody went to the Brno fair Saturday.” Pavelka told the Austrian.*. “Nobody was around to watch the hangars where they keep the small sports planes. I opened the hangar doors and rolled out a plane. Nobody stopped me. We taxied to the (runway andtook off. Nobody tried to stop I me in the air, cither.
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Charleston Gazette Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 23, 1962
Page 47
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