Pilot Killed, Another Badly Injured
(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, September 12. A man was still in a serious condition in the Grey Hospital this afternoon with burns suffered in an aircraft crash near Haast last evening which killed his companion.
The crash, in which a Piper Cub was destroyed, was at Mussel Point, about eight miles south of Haast.
The man who died was Bryan Robert Antill, aged 34, married, of 50 Russley Road, Christchurch.
The injured man is John Sinclair, aged 27, a deer shooter of Makarora, on the southern side of the Haast Pass.
The plane crashed about 100 yards from the Mussel Point landing strip. Mr Antill, who held a flying instructor’s licence, had
been working in the region for the last 18 months, flying out deer carcases.
The plane burst into flames, and was only a burned-out shell, staid Constable Q. N. Burslem, of Haast.
The chief inspector of air accidents, Wing Commander E. F. Harvie, of Welington, arrived in the area last night to make an investigation. Mr Sinclair was brought to Greymouth from Haast—a distance of 207 miles—by ambulance, arriving at 2.45 a.m. today.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 1
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