Woman killed by propeller

Press, 21 July 1980, Page 4

Woman killed by propeller

NZPA. Port Moresby - A’ -yburig woman was decapitated,by a light plane’s propeller’: at a Papua New Guinean '(airport yesterday after walking to the front of the aircraft to clean the pilot’s window. A police spokesman said! that the woman, Terry Frances Forley, aged 27, had been a passenger in the plane. He said the, aircraft, a Beechcraft Baron, had taxied: to the end of the runway ati’ Mount Hagen airport in the I ' Western Highlands region.! i Miss Forley had then climbed?; put, walked to the front ofi the plane, and had beenkilled instantly. '■ . i The aircraft, owned by the 1

P.N.G. airline, Talair, was preparing to take off in search of another, Talair plane that had disappeared the day before on a flight in the Southern Highlands from the township of Tari to nearby Mendi. The plane was found soon after 8 a.m. yesterday, about two hours after the death of ; Miss Forley. It had crashed, killing six people on board on top of a ridge in an area known as the Tari gap. One of those killed was the premier of Papua New Guinea’s southern Highlands | province, Mr Andrew Andaija. A ground party reached the site of the crash yesterday afternoon, said the police spokesman. . •