GROUND COLLISION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 8

GROUND COLLISION

AEROPLANES DAMAGED

PILOTS NOT REVEALED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 28th March. Two aeroplanes, a Tomtit machine and a De Haviland Moth, were considerably damaged in a ground collision -which occurred at the Hobsonville Air Base on Friday afternoon. Both machines had been in the air. The collision WurTed immediately after j they had landed, and while taxi-ing. The impact was severe, but the four occupants of the two machines scrambled out uninjured. An eye-witness, who had motored to Hobsonville to have a look at the flying operations, saw the collision from a distance. Ho said that both machines appeared to be badly smashed, and that one of the men had received some injury. Questioned about the incident, Squadron-Leader T. M. Wilkes, Director of Air Services, who is attending the refresher course at Hobsonville, was reticent. He said both machines were damaged to some extent and would be out of the air for "a couple of days." He added that the damage was principally to. the wings. "They were knocked about a bit," he added. "The four men who were in the machines are quite all right and are flying again this morning." Squadron-Leader Wilkes would not supply the names of the four officers who were in the two machines. "I have given instructions that their names ar.e not to be revealed, "he said.