PILOT POWERLESS
PLANE CRASH ON GLACIER CREVICES AND PINNACLES AVOIDED Describing his recent forced landing in a Fox Moth on the Franz Josef Glacier, the pilot, Mr 0. D. Openshaw, .said he ran into an air pocket that took him down like a shot and made him powerless to lift or guide the aeroplane. The left wing struck an ice pinnacle and came off. He jammed the rudder over as hard as possible and the aeroplane swung round and round in a circle, all he could see being a huge pinnacle of ice in front of him, as they carne dowh and struck the icefield, and flattened out without great Xorce. They landed on crushed ice, with enormous crevasses and high ice pinnacles all round. The crevasses were of unknown depth, and looking down them was like looking into a blue mist.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13303, 16 November 1943, Page 4
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