Windscreen cracked
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Sept. 7. I A cracked windscreen: forced an N.A.C. Friendship to make an unscheduled landing at Wellington Airport yesterday afternoon. The aircraft took off for Napier soon after 5 p.m., but was forced to return when a cracked windscreen was discovered. The cause of the crack was not known. The .air traffic controller (Mr K. A. Naisbitt), said the airport was put on stand-by for the landing, but it was not an emergency.
The 40 passengers on board were transferred to another aircraft and other N.A.C. services were not disrupted.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33942, 8 September 1975, Page 14
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