HELICOPTER CRASHES
Entangled With Power Lines
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 7. The pilot of a Bell helicopter which crashed into 1500-volt power lines near Hoteo, eight miles south of Wellsford, and skidded along the wires before crashing Into a pole and plummeting to the ground this morning, escaped with only a small cut on his head. The machine was wrecked.
The accident occurred at 8.47 a.m., when the pilot, Mr Byron Davies, of California, was spraying hormone killer over willows growing along a stream. The wires spanned a gully and were 100 ft above the ground. Mr Davies tried to manoeuvre the aircraft away from the lines, but the skid became entangled with them. With the rotor whirling, the helicopter slithered along the transmission lines to pile up against a wooden pole on one side of the gully, turn over and crash to the ground after breaking' all the wires.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28479, 8 January 1958, Page 8
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