WING CRUMPLED.
CRASH ON LANDING.
MISHAP AT THE BASE,
When a wing tip touched the ground as a Moth aeroplane bolonging to the Royal New Zealand Air Force was about to land at Hobsonville Air Ba**> shortly before five o'clock yesterday afternoon, the wing crumpled like paper, and the plane slewed round on to its nose, smashing the propeller. The machine was being flown by Pilot-Officer L. A. Robertson with an aircraftsman as passenger. The pilot received minor facial abrasions, but otherwise neither occupant was injured. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 12
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