it was dark, the flight having taken longer than expected due to headwinds. She ran out of fuel over Rome and glided to a crash landing at San Paolo wireless station. Contrary to her later claims of having "very little damage", the Gipsy Moth was in a very bad state and she had received a cut to her face. It took over a week for her aircraft to be repaired. The company carrying out the work did so for free, in acknowledgement of her courage, but Batten still had to source replacement parts. Walter sent over the propeller from his own aircraft, and a lower wing was borrowed from an Italian pilot who also owned a Gipsy Moth. Ten days after the crash, Batten flew her repaired aircraft back to England. She had decided to make a third attempt rather than continue with her present flight, which would have to include her time spent in Rome waiting for the repairs to her aircraft to be completed. Third attempt Batten arrived back at Brooklands on 6 May and promptly began preparing for her next flight. Despite Walter wanting her to give up on the record attempt, she persuaded him to lend her the lower wings of his Gipsy Moth. The set she had borrowed in Italy required refurbishment and she wanted to start her flight as soon as possible. Her aircraft was made ready and she departed from Lympne Aerodrome on 8 May, aiming to reach Australia in 14 days. Batten flew to Marseilles, refuelled, and then went on to Rome, arriving at nighttime. The next day, she flew to Athens. The third day involved a single leg of around seven hours flying to Cyprus. Her flight from London to Cyprus was the first time this trip had been successfully completed by a solo pilot. On day four, the leg to Baghdad, she ran into sandstorms and this caused her to divert to Rutbah Wells, to the west of Baghdad. The next day she flew onto Basra and day six was a leg to Jask. Day seven was a flight to Karachi and passed without incident. Batten flew onto Jodhpur and then Allahabad on day eight, before going onto Calcutta, away, where she ended day nine by landing at Dum Dum Aerodrome. Rangoon was the destination for day ten. On the following day, Batten encountered the Intertropical Convergence Zone, flying into