"ALL IN THE GAME"
AN AEROPLANE CRASH
CHILDREN'S REACTIONS
START OF A JOY RIDE
(From "The Post's" Representative.)
SYDNEY, April 30,
A joy-riding aeroplane crashed from 300 feet at Mascot on Sunday, and .out of it clambered Ursula Sims, aged seven. . "Is this fair dinkum, or is it a dream?" she asked. "Daddy," she callccJ to an anxious parent racing towards her, "I don't know whether I'm broke or badly bent, but I feel as if I'm killed." With the initial shock over, she whimpered on the way to hospital, where it was found that shs was more than • "badly bent." She was admitted with a broken arm. Tha lip of anofrier passenger, Albert E. Adams, was cut, and two stitches were required. The pilot, Cliff Carpenter, and the third passenger, Michael Sims, aged ten, were riot injured. ' The machine, a Genairco three-seater, crashed in a.vacant allotment just beyond the eastern fence of the Kingsford Smith Aerodrome. Eye-witnesses stated that the engine seemed to "cut but" shortly after the take-off, and the machine banked to the left. The pilot attempted to make a pancake landing, and narrowly missed.a workshop and telephone, wires as he brought the aeroplane down. It ended on its nose in a clump of lantana bushes within fifty: feet of a house. : The forepart .of the machine was extensively damaged,- the tips of the wings were chipped, the propeller was shattered, and the fuselage was broken in two just beyond the pilot's cockpit. ■ Mr. Sims, father of the two children, and Mr. Adams, had taken part in the Anzac Day march earlier in the day, and had taken the children to Mascot to look at the aeroplanes. The children and Adams went up, following a suggestion by Mr. Sims. "I didn't get a: fright," said Michael Sims, "because I thought the pilot was just going to make:a turn. We came down with a bump. It is the first time I have ever been up. Oh, yes," he added offhandedly, in answer to a question, "I'm going to be an aviator when I grow up. ' Crashing is-all in the game." . •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11
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352"ALL IN THE GAME" Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11
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