Shaken but all right — pilot
By
SARAH SANDS
Just over an hour after the crash, Pilot Officer Peter Lindsay said he was feeling shaken but was otherwise all right. In a brief telephone conversation an obviously shaken Pilot Officer Lindsay said from the farmhouse of Mr D. W. T. Wilson, of The Doone, that he could not remember much about ejecting himself from the aircraft. What happened? — I was flying a jet low-level route and I hit some wires crossing a valley. Were they power lines? — Yes. Pilot Officer Lindsay said he had not known the lines were there. Didn’t you see them? — If I’d seen them, I wouldn’t have hit them. But you are all right? — I’m a bit shaken but I’m okay. Where did you come down in relation to the aircraft? — I came down about 200 metres further forward from the aircraft down the hill. How is the aircraft? — There is none. It’s all over the hill. When are you being brought back to Christchurch? — There’s a chopper here now. In the Wigram base hospital later, Pilot Officer Lindsay said that he had suffered a few cuts and bruises and suspected knee sprains. He was not allowed to answer any questions from reporters.
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Press, 4 July 1985, Page 1
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