FORCED LANDING
WELLESLEY BOMBER IN AUSTRALIA CREW UNINJURED BUT PLANE DAMAGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, November 28. During a test flight to-day, prior to departing for Canberra and Melbourne to-morrow, one of the record-breaking Vickers-Wellesley bombers was compelled to make a forced landing in a ploughed field nea.r Richmond. The undercarriage was considerably damaged and one wheel was torn off by the force of the impact. The 6rew of five was not injured, but received a severe shaking. . A farmer who was engaged m fallowing had to fall on his face to avoid being struck by the wing of the plane, andnis horse bolted. THREE-YEAR-OLD TRAGEDY RECALLED FARMER DECAPITATED IN SAME PADDOCK. SYDNEY, November 28. (Received November 29, at 8 a.m.) The machine was considerably damaged. The undercarriage was buckled, the wheels were stripped, and a wing was torn off. The propellers were severely bent and the engine was embedded in the ground. The paddock where the mishap occurred belonged to a farmer, Malcolm Smith, whose father was decapitated by an Air Force plane in a forced landing three years ago in the same paddock. R. Somerville, pilot of this particular plane, later married Mr Smith’s daughter. Somerville was afterwards killed in an Air Force plane crash at Point Cook.
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Evening Star, Issue 23127, 29 November 1938, Page 9
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210FORCED LANDING Evening Star, Issue 23127, 29 November 1938, Page 9
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