PLANE AND HAWK COLLIDE
DC-3 TURNS BACK TO HAREWOOD
A hawk that disputed right of way with a Doufflas airliner near Harewood yesterday was killed, but the collision put the plane temporarily out of service.
A National Airways Corporation DC-3 aircraft left Harewood at 7.40 a.m. bound for Auckland with a load of passengers, and had not been in the air for more than five minutes before it collided with the bird. The hawk struck the nose cowling, which shields a group of delicate instruments, and as the pilot (Captain V. Moran, of Auckland) did not know the extent of the damage he turned back to Harewood. Passengers were transferred to another DC-3. and after a short delay resumed their journey. The damaged aircraft was taken to the corporation’s workshops on the airfield, and after about 15 minutes’ work the cowling was straightened There was no other damage to the plane, which was flying again in the morning.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28002, 23 June 1956, Page 8
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