Plane Loses Engine
(N.Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Dec. 11. A light aircraft’s engine fell out w'hile it was flying at 3500 ft over outer Melbourne yesterday. After plummeting more than 2500 ft in a spin dive, the plane made a successful landing in a paddock, and its two occupants walked away unhurt. The aircraft, a Royal Victorian Aero Club Chipmunk, landed about a mile from where its engine buried itself 18in in the ground. The engine crashed just 100 yards from a house. The pilot, Mr R. Fisher, who has held a pilot's licence since October. 1947, and who has 760 hours’ flying experience, said the plane was flying horizontally at about 100 m.p.h. After the explosion, the Chipmunk’s nose leapt up and the aircraft somersaulted into a spin dive. Instinctively. he fought with the controls until he had it under control, then glided in for a “normal” crash landing.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29695, 13 December 1961, Page 13
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