MISHAP -TO 'PLANE.
PROPELLER SHATTERED.
ACCIDENT AT THE CHATEAU. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CHATEAU TONGARIKO, Friday. When landing at the Chateau yesterday afternoon, an Avian sports biplane, owned and piloted by Mr. R. A. Kirkup, of Auckland, suffered undercarriage damage and a shattered propeller. Neither Mr. Kirkup nor his passenger, Mr. L. L. White, was injured. The right wheel struck a depression in the landing ground, the fairway of the golf course near the Chateau, and the aeroplane heeled over. Mr. Kirkup immediately switched off the engine, but the propeller struck the ground and was smashed to splinters and the undercarriage was damaged. The fuselage and fabric, however, did not suffer, the steel construction of the aeroplane being an assisting factor. With the assistance of members of the utaff at the Chateau the biplane, was dismantled, trucked to National Park station and railed to Auckland for repairs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 18
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