Home-built plane in fatal crash
PA Wellington It c Manfred Schafer spent I four painstaking years build- ;f ing his own aeroplane in his)J Naenae garage, but death in- i; tervened only hours before he was to take it on a first,' test flight. He went for an early-j morning joyride with a fel- | low aircraft enthusiast, the t Rev. Ronald Keyte, thp ; R.N.Z.A.F. chaplain al f Ohakea, at an air rally near!' Masterton on Saturday. Onlookers said Mr Keyte’slf home-built plane appeared to c stall in mid-air soon after I;
take-off from Hood Aerodrome, Masterton. It crashed and broke into pieces which were scattered in an 80m line through paddocks. Both men were killed. Mr Keyte’s son. aged 14. W'as on the ground at the time of the accident. Mr Schafer, married with two young children, was a keen outdoor man, enjoying tramping and fishing in New Zealand since he arrived from West Germany almost 20 years ago. But his biggest love was flying, and he had long dreamed of building his own plane.
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