AEROPLANE WRECKED.
PILOT GRAVELY INJURED. BRIEF FLYING EXPERIENCE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. A young pilot, Mr. Robert Chrystall, aged 21, son of Mr. John Chrystall, of Foxton, was gravely injured when a home-made aeroplane crashed on the way from Foxton Beach to Foxton. Mr. Chrystall made a successful first-flight to the beach on Monday, and reached a height of 250 ft to-day, but the machine nose dived when banking and crashed on the foreshore. The pilot was extricated from the wreckage by a fisherman. He was saturated with petrol but fortunately the machine did not catch fire. Mr. Chrystall had both his le»s fractured and "suffered facial injuries. He was taken to the Palmerston North Hospital in a serious condition. j Mr. Chrvstall has only five • hours flying experience, and until Monday had never flown solo.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1932, Page 12
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