BURNED-OUT PLANE
WRECKAGE FOUND IN GULLY
BODY NOT YET IDENTIFIED P.A. WELLINGTON, Friday. The burned-out wreckage of a Tiger Moth aircraft and the remains of a body, which has not yet been identified, were found in a steep gully in the South Karori Hills yesterday afternoon. The aircraft was found in the edge of dense bush in a steep gully about two miles off the South Makara Road by a farmhand who was looking for his dog. The machine had been there for some considerable time. A party of police and members of the Accident Inspection Section of the Royal New Zealand Air Force visited the scene and the body was removed. Efforts are being made to discover the identity of the Tiger Moth. On August 23, 1942, an R.N.Z.A.F. plane engaged on Army co-operation work with a Home Guard unit went missing in the Makara-Karqri area. This plane, however, carried two men. The pilot was Pilot-Officer I. Elliott and the passenger Lieutenant H. F. H. Ballard, a Wellington lawyer and member of the Home Guard.
It is believed that several other aircraft which have been lost during the war period could have crashed in the same area.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 9
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