The Taieri Plain Aeroplane Crash.— The splintered wreckage of the Otago Aero Club’s de Havilland Gipsy Moth which crashed on the Taieri Plain on Thursday afternoon. The pilot. Mr. E. M. Colvin, was killed instantaneously. It took the united efforts of four men over four hours to dig out the engine, which, in this picture, is buried three feet below the ground hole in the foreground.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 155, 29 March 1937, Page 7
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66The Taieri Plain Aeroplane Crash.—The splintered wreckage of the Otago Aero Club’s de Havilland Gipsy Moth which crashed on the Taieri Plain on Thursday afternoon. The pilot. Mr. E. M. Colvin, was killed instantaneously. It took the united efforts of four men over four hours to dig out the engine, which, in this picture, is buried three feet below the ground hole in the foreground. Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 155, 29 March 1937, Page 7
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