PLANE CRASH
FENCE STRUCK IN UNDING PILOT AND PASSENGER UNINJURED Our Oamaru correspondent telephoned at 2.10 p.m.: A light plane, owned by the Canterbury Aero Club, crashed just north of Oamaru to-day. The pilot, Mr V. Cotton, who holds an A license, was uninjured, as also was his passenger. The plane had been chartered to fly to the Waitaki Boys’ High School, of which, it is understood, the passenger was to take air photographs. Tho pilot attempted to land in a paddock near the school, but struck a fence, the machine turning completely upside down, it was a D.H. 60, with the lettering 3K.A.A.W.
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Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 8
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104PLANE CRASH Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 8
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