PILOT BADLY INJURED
PLANE NOSE-DIVES TO GROUND (P.A.) HASTINGS, August 21. Severe injuries were sustained by the pilot of a Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club Tiger Moth when it crashed at Elsthorpe, 35 miles from Hastings, about midday on Saturday. He is Morris Leslie Dunn, aged 20, single of Hastings. Two club machines flew from Hastings together, and when the one piloted by Dunn was making a low run over the Tiffen estate it nosedived into the ground from about 50 feet. Dunn, who was flying solo, was in the rear cockpit. The front cockpit was shattered when the engine was forced in'to it by the impact.* Dunn is in the Hastings Memorial Hospital suffering from severe head injuries and lesser leg injuries. His 1 condition is fairly satisfactory. The plane was badly damaged.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 265, 22 August 1949, Page 2
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