FLYERS SAFE.
AIRMEN FROM WIGRAM
FORCED L/; DING MADE.
WELLINGTON, this day.
It was officially announced in Wellington this morning that an Airspeed Oxford bombing aeroplane with a crew of two, which failed to return to Wigram from a training flight yesterday afternoon, has been located near Cass. The machine was not damaged and the crew not hurt. Apparently bad weather conditions had made a forced landing necessary. The crew consisted of Leading Aircraftsman Colin McDougall Didsbury, of Wellington, pilot of the machine, and Leading Aircraftsman Ralph Norman Allen, of Dunedin, observen on the flight. The bomber left Wigrem aerodrome at two o'clock yesterday on a navigational flight to Kaikoura direct and back, via Oxford, from which it was expected to return about four o'clock*. It wae preceded by 10 minutes by another machine which was to have followed the same course. This machine running into bad weather on the return trip headed towards the coast and followed the coastline south from Motunau Island, ii4»intug to Wigram shortly before 4 p.m.—(Press Assn.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 6
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