PLANE CRASH SEQUEL
£3,000 DAMAGES AGAINST AIR COMPANY [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 21. “ I find on the evidence that the accident was due to negligence of Ivan Louis Kight in attempting to turn into the wind at too low an altitude at a low rate of speed, thereby causing tho machine to lose flying speed and nose dive.” This decision is contained in a judgment by Mr Justice Reed in an interesting case heard in the Supreme Court in September in, which William Thomas Strand, Mayor of Lower Hutt, as administrator of the estate of his son, William diaries Strand, claimed £5,000 damages from the Dominion Airlines Ltd. (in voluntary liquidation). The case was tho sequel to a fatal aeroplane crash near Wairoa, as a result of which the pilot, Kight, and two passengers, including Strand, were killed. His Honour said that the plaintiff was entitled to succeed, and awarded £3,000 damages against the company.
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Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 15
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157PLANE CRASH SEQUEL Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 15
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