BIPLANE CRASH.
PILOT'S CONSIDERATION.
SAFETY OF PUBLIC STUDIED,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Friday.. Further particulars in'connection with the Waipiro Bay aviation accident reveal that the opinion has 'been formed by spectators that Mr. Buckeridge, after descending low, decided not to take the risk of landing on the beach till the scattered spectators were clear of a strip of laSid he proposed to use, and that his card for the safety, of the public led to the crash. The plafie was coming down slowly against the wind. Then the pilot apparently changed his mind and began to lift the machine again. His speed was too slow to enable' him to clear a Maori dwelling, and, with a startling report from splintered timbers, the plane buried its nose in the kitchen of the building.™ A further accident occurred while the injured aviator was being hurried to the hospital, the motor car in which he was travelling crashing into another car at a sharp bend on the road. Both vehicles were damaged., Mr. Buckeridge is reported to-day to have been discharged from hospital, and he is proceeding to Gisborne.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 13
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