PLANE NOSE-DIVES
Pilot Hurt and Machine Extensively Damaged FORCED LANDING AT AKURA Dominion Special Service. Masterton, June 2. Mr. P. H. Wilton, of Featherston, had a lucky escape from serious injury when the aeroplane he was piloting from Masterton to Dannevirke to attend the air pageant crashed into a paddock at Akura yesterday morning. The accident occurred about 9.15 a.m., Mr. Wilton having left Hood aerodrome just before 9 o’clock. The machine, which is owned by the pilot, is an old wartime model, an Avro 504 K, and driven by a 110 horse-power Le Rhone rotary engine. The accident was apparently caused by engine trouble. According to eyewitnesses’ accounts, the engine “cut out” over Upper Plain, aibout one mile by airline from the scene o" the crash. The pilot then circled, gradually losing height. Fortunately there were numerous paddocks in the vicinity, and very few houses. Mr. Wilton overshot one empty and fairly level paddock, crashing in the corner of an adjacent one. and finishing just behind a stout wooden obstruction.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 210, 3 June 1935, Page 10
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