FORCED LANDING
CAPTAIN WHITE DOWN
'BUMPY OVER HAWKES BAY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' DANNEVIBKE, This Day. While flying, to Wellington early this morning to participate" in the aerial rrrgeant, Lieutenant Allen, assistant in-
structor to the Hawkes Bay Aero Club, who had as passenger in a Moth 'plane Mr. N. Freed, of Havelock North, had to make a forced landing at Tiratu, on the outskirts of Dannevirke. The 'plane left Hastings at 6.20, and had a bumpy flight against a head wind. About 7 o'clock, when the 'plane was over Tiratu, tho petrol pipe leading to the carburettor burst, and it became urgently necessary to descend. Lieutenant Allen circled round in search of a landing, and safely descended in a paddock twelve chains long on Mr. A. H. Pollock's farm, near the factory.
When landing tho 'plane just grazed the top of a belt ot trees and missed a wire fence. The 'plane is being brought to Dannovirke for repairs, and will probably remain here to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 12
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165FORCED LANDING Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 12
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