CRASHED AT TAKE-OFF
Three Hurt In Aircraft (N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI, July 21. Minor injuries only were suffered by the pilot and two passengers, and a third passenger was unhurt, when a Northern Wairoa Aero Club aircraft crashed during takeoff at Maungaturoto this morning.
The plane, a Piper Tripacer, was leaving from the aerial top-dressing airstrip on Mr D. A. Cameron’s property, Gorge road. Maungaturoto. on a flight to Wellington via New Plymouth. It left the airstrip but failed to gain height and crashed on a small ridge 100 yards off the end of the steep runway.
The pilot, the club's instructor, lan Timothy Haldane, and a passenger. Jack Mills, farmer, of Kaiwaka. suffered facial lacerations. Alan Thompson, company director, of Maungaturoto, received slight back injuries. The third passenger, Richard Max Wallis, farmer, of Maungaturoto, was unhurt. The three injured were taken to Dargaville Hospital for observation.
The aircraft is extensively damaged.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 12
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