Young Boys Try To Burn Cessna
(New Zealand Press Association) ROTORUA, August 16. Three young Kawerau boys yesterday ati tempted to burn a Cessna 172 four-seater aircraft owned by the Eastern Bay of Plenty ! Aero Club.
I The children, aged seven, (nine, and 13, broke into the club’s hangar at the Kawerau airfield and after pushing the £5OOO plane out of the building, breaking into the cockpit and turning the engine over, heaped club records under the tail of the aircraft and lit a fire. Fortunately, the records did not burn well and the plane was damaged only
around the tail section. The plane has been grounded till a Department of Civil Aviation engineer can inspect the aircraft. A member of the club, Mr R. Krause, who was first there yesterday, said the plane was facing the hangar with the throttle wide open. “If the engine had started, and it quite easily could have, the plane would have crashed into the hangar.” Detective-Sergeant O. M. Mitchell, of the Whakatane C. 1.8., said today the children had been seen on the airfield by Mr Krause and were later apprehended.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31140, 17 August 1966, Page 3
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