SLIGHT DAMAGE.
"FAITH IN AUSTRALIA." PASSENGERS HELD CAPTIVE. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, Jan. 29. The monoplane, Faith in Australia, received slight damage when it swerved to avoid a motor-car in taking oil' on Muriwai beach this afternoon, but none of the occupants suffered injury. The machine was taxi-ing along the beach from north to south, preparatory to taking off on a passenger flight, and had gone a few hundred yards when a car was seen coming in the opposite direction. , The pilot, G. U. Allen, was forced to turn sharply to avoid it.
He shut off his engines and swerved to the right into soft sand above high water mark, but the wheels sank to the axle, and after ploughing its way for a few yards the machine tipped on its nose, burying the front propeller in the sand. The propeller was splintered.
The machine arrived at the beach earlier in the afternoon, and was on its third flight when the mishap occurred, i There were fourteen passengers, among whom were several ladies and a boy about nine years old. AVhen the aeroplane tipped on ith nose the door, which is just at the rear of the wing was left about eight or ten feet above the ground, and the passengers vrere temporarily marooned until a rope was thrown up. The men were able to slide down, but some difficulty was experienced in inducing the ladies to follow their example. Eventually a bus was obtained and backed up to the door and they Avcre able to clamber clown from the roof. The machine was pushed above high water mark where it was loft for the night.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 93, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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