“KITSET” PLANE
Crash Near Farmhouse (N.Z Press Association* AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. A young man on a flight from Ardmore escaped serious injury when the kitset plane he was flying crashed on his brother-in-law’s farm at Horsham Downs, near Hamilton this afternoon. The plane, a single-seater Druine Turbulent, owned bv Mr R. A. Hicks, of 127 Waflace road, Papatoetoe, and worth £l2OO, was wrecked, but the pilot. Mr Allan Leith Macintosh, of 83 Matipo road. Te Atatu, was in a fairly satisfactory condition in Waikato Hospital tonight with a broken ankle and cuts. Mr Macintosh had circled the farmhouse of his brother-in-law, Mr J. R. Paterson. Then he apparently noticed men working on a new house near by on the farm.
He circled the new house once and was making another bank when the plane crashed.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31154, 2 September 1966, Page 1
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