AEROPLANE CRASH

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1932, Page 9

AEROPLANE CRASH

I RESULT OF INQUIRY

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;;; (By Telegraph.}- ' (Special to /'the Evenlnf Post.")

,;,-., ~ MXSTEBTON, This Day. ■The findiagv of the Court■ of tiquiry into the_crash_of the Wairarapa, Aero Cinb'saeroplane;- ZK ABE, at Carterton on Saturday- 25th June, -is'■ ■*■«that' the primary cause of the accident was <that the <pilot,." McLaren,; wag; flying, vover■very uiisafo country too low to effect an emergency, landing in the event of engine trouble.-^ -; .- -w: :-.-..• ;■•:-.;.;.;■

''Engine..-'trouble' did occury with the result that the aeroplane crashed: Had McLaren;kept.his aeroplane!Mgher>then he should either have been able to Jget his engine. 'going ;again or make a safe landingijn a tmpre. convenient paddock. -, "From,»the evidence it -appears that whatever teaused'T;the\;st6ppage in ' the engine .was a temporai-y trouble only; the engine had been passed before the trip^was. made, and;Bubs,equent examination by everts showed the engine to bq> ; mechanically-airworthy.- :■, •'.,-..-.'. -..: : ; ''There waß nolevidenee.that McLaren Sad 'been;indulgirig y in aerobatics. 3', . "•'■'■Mr. J. S. McLaren is a resident*of Wellington. -,v' :;; ''■■ :: . ■■■; V ; r