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Czech PilotBFamily SafeaBIn AustriaVIENNA (UPI) — A former Czechoslovak fighter pilot and his family were safely in Austria Monday after a dramatic escape trom behind the iron curtain in a stolen two-seater plane.Janus Pavelka, 40, a wartime Royal Air Force flier, told Austrian police he had waited 10 years for his chance. *Last Saturday Pavelka, his wife, v Eva, 35; his son, Janus, 4; his f daughter, Maria, d; and his broth-1* er-in-law, Vaclav, 15, crept into the s plane at the Aero Club of Deutsch [5 Brad—only a few hundred yards from a military air base. j1After 30 minutes of frantic efforts, the overloaded plane took * off in the direction of Austria. MPavelka, who has not flown for)5 at least 10 years, managed to land in a wheat field near Arbesbach, j 1lower Austria, with a broken pro- ] 1 peller and damaged fuselage;The only casualty was Janus, who had a bruised leg.“Neither 1 nor my wife was allowed to study by the Communist authorities, Pavelka told Austrian police.“Our children arc going to have it better,**
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Bedford Gazette
Bedford, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Sep 25, 1962
Page 7
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