PLANE WRECKED IN CRASH
Pilot’s Severe Facial Injuries (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 23. A Stratford Aero Club student pilot this afternoon crashed in a Tiger Moth plane at Cardiff. The machine, which spun into the ground, was wrecked and the pilot was admitted to Stratford Hosoital with severe facial injuries.
Tonight the condition of the pilot, Geoffrey George Herbert, of Olivia street, Stratford, a married man with three children, was satisfactory.
Mr Herbert was practising spins in preparation for his private pilot’s licence test. He lost control of the plane which crashed into a paddock on Mr J. J. O’Neill’s farm about 2 p.m. The plane, valued at £7OO, was not insured.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 10
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