AIRMAN INJURED
MISHAP AT BELL BLOCK
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
Injuries were suffered by the pilot of a Royal New Zealand Air Force machine this morning when two planes collided taxiing at the No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School, Bell Block, six miles from New Plymouth. The injured man is Leading Aircraftman G. W. de Vere. Auckland.
The machines, both Gipsy Moth training planes, had just landed after flights and were taxiing along the field when the collision occurred. A companion in de Vere's machine was unhurt, and so was the sole occupant of the other machine..
One machine was damaged extensively and the other not so heavily.
Aircraftman de Vere, who was taken by ambulance to hospital, arrived at the Bell Block station from Weraroa on August 24. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 59, 6 September 1940, Page 9
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