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Show TRIO FORCED DOWN NEAR SAN JACINTO SAN JACINTO, Cal., July 14 (U.R) Three weary but happy Soviet aviators shattered shat-tered all ' non-stop distance flight records today when they landed in a nearby cow pasture after a 6,668 mile flight over the North Pole from Moscow. The trio, who took off Sunday at 5:23 p. m., (MST), and dropped drop-ped down three miles from here about 7:30 a. m. (MST), this morning, revealed they actually were as far south as San Diego, but were forced back north by fog. Still Gasoline Ix-ft After an examination of their plane, the fliers discovered they still had gasoline, despite their first announcement that a gas line leak forced them down. The gas line, it was disclosed, was dented badly when it struck a clod or rock as the singlc-motorcd red monoplane came to a dumpy but safe landing. By their exploit the Russians broke the world's non-stop flight j record set by two Frenchmen, Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, in 1933. The Codos, Rossi hop was 5,647 miles from New York to i Syria. All Veteran Fliers The three airmen, Michael Gromov, Gro-mov, Andrei B. Yumanshev and Sergei Danilin, all are veteran Soviet fliers with years of army aircraft experience. Unable to make themselves understood un-derstood except to a Russian of San Jacinto, who had forgotten most of his native language, the fliers wrote out what they could and gestured for emphasis. "Sixty-two hours and 30 minutes in the air," one of them wrote. I |