CRASHED AEROPLANE ON GLACIER
MOVEMENT OF ABOUT 400 FEET From Our Own Reporter GREYMOUTH, May 22.
Tlie wreck of West Coast United Aero Club’s Tiger Moth, which crashed into a crevasse on the main icefall on the Franz Josef glacier on April 22, is now clearly visible from the air. With rapid changes among the pinnacles and in icefall regions, the aircraft has moved from 400 to 500 feet in the last four weeks and now rests out in the open on the top of the glacier. During the week-end three guides from the Franz Josef glacier hostel, Messrs S. and G. Graham and R. Warburton, accompanied by Mr D. Nolan, who operates a private aeroplane from Okuru, made an ascent on the glacier and salvaged the two magnetos and other minor parts from the aircraft. An aeroplane which crashed a little higher up on the glacier about seven years ago was salvaged, but a sheath, or engine cowling, was left behind. Recently this part, which had been lying on the face of the glacier, came out at the terminal face practically unmarked.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26119, 23 May 1950, Page 6
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