DAMAGE TO PLANE
Landing at Orongo-Orongo PILOT NOT TO BLAME Dominion Special Service. Masterton, January 6. Reports were received at a meeting of the committee of the Wairarapa Aero Club last night on the forced landing of one ok the club’s aeroplanes, ZK-ABE at Orongo-Orongo on Friday, December 23. The committee, after consideration of the reports, agreed that no blame was attachable to the pilot. Flying-Officer J. M. Buckeridge, and that he had done remarkably well considering the weather conditions and the ground on which the emergency landing was made. The damage to the aeroplane is fairly severe. Three wings will have to be written off, also the undercarriage and the propellor. A rigorous examination of the front half of the fuselage has not yet been made, but the probability Is that this will not require replacement. The work of repairing the damage will be undertaken immediately. , , . Meanwhile, although the club is handicapped by having only one machine in the air, training of pilots is proceeding satisfactorily with ZK-ACD.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 88, 7 January 1933, Page 10
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