PILOT INJURED WHEN PLANE NOSE-DIVES
HASTINGS, August 21 (P.A.) — Severe injuries were sustained by the pilot of a Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club Tiger Moth when it crashed at Elsthorpe, 35 miles from Hastings, about midday on Saturday. He is Morris Leslie Dunn, aged 20, single of Hastings. Two club machines flew from Hastings together, and when the one piloted by Dunn was making a low run over the Tiffen estate it nose dived into the ground from, about 50 feet. Dunn, who was flying solo, was forced into it by the impact. Dunn is in the Hastings Memorial Hospital suffering from severe head injuries. His. condition is fairly satisfactory. The plane was badly damaged.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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