AEROPLANE CRASHES
TWO OCCUPANTS INJURED. Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, July 12. Crashing in a field of wheat at Ohoka while its pilot was practising a forced landing, the Canterbury Aero Club’s Moth aeroplane Z.K.-A.A.vv. was badly damaged this evening The two occupants were injured and are now in the Christchurch Public Hospital, but neither is seriously ill. t hey Mr J. J. Busch, commercial pilot to the Canterbury Aero Club, injuries to his face and back. Mr A. C. Baines, 139 St, Asaph Street, injuries to his head. With its nose pressed into the ground, the engine an exposed and twisted mass, and the two right wings crumpled and torn, the aeroplanes was sadly dilapidated. Nothing could be done with it this evening, but engineers from the Aero Club will begin to dismantle it to-morrow morning. It is not beyond repair.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 231, 13 July 1935, Page 3
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