'PLANE CRASHES.
AUCKLAND PILOT ESCAPES.
BELIEVED ENGINE STALLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Pilot Officer R. J. C. Grant, of Ponsonby, Auckland, crashed in a Moth machine -when engaged in practice landings at the flying school at New Plymouth this morning.
It is understood the engine ■ stalled about 200 feet above the ground, and the 'plane crashed in a paddock across the road from the aerodrome.
The machine was considerably damaged, but the pilot escaped with a minor injury.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 3
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