AEROPLANE HITS HEDGE AND OVERTURNS
PILOT AND PASSENGER HAVE NARROW ESCAPE j 'PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.' OAMARU, December 7. Shortly after noon to-day, the aeroplane ZK-AAW, privately owned and piloted by Vincent Cotton, of Christchurch, crashed into a gorse hedge and turned over when attenipting to land in a paddock on Major H. S. Orbell s property at Eveline, a few miles north of Oamaru. The pilot and a passenger, L. G. Hahn, also of Christchurch, had a vegy narrow escape, being uninjured apart from Slight cuts to Hahn s forehead and knee. Both suffered ; slightly from shock. It appears that Cotton was bringing Hahn, who is a photographer to Oamaru. to take photographs of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, and was attempting to land in a field not very far from the school, when the aeroplane over-ran because of an assisting wind, crashed through a gorse hedge, and completely overturned some yards out from the hedge, in an adjoining paddock. The propeller of the machine was broken off. the wings were broken, and there were other fairly extensive breakages to various parts of the raachine. _
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21960, 8 December 1936, Page 10
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