MOTH CRASHES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10723, 22 October 1928, Page 5

MOTH CRASHES.

EXCITEMENT AT GOLF MATCH TWO YVOMEN RESCUED

ROTH SEVERELY INJURED

United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrigh' Australian PvesH Assn.—United Service (Received Oct. 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21.

While Tolley and Wethered, opposing Mitchell and C. Whitcombe, in a foursome at the opening of the new Mote Mount golf course, Milhall, were approaching the ninth hole, the crowd’s attention was attracted to a Moth circling overhead in a boisterous wind. Suddenly the engine stopped, and the plane spun downwards, the pilot making a desperate effort to regain control. The plane nose dived three hundred feet, crashing at the sixth tee. The. players flung down their clubs and joined the spectators in a rush to the plane and found two women in the wreckage—Miss Sioele O’Brien, daughter of Sir Timothy O’Brien, the second Englishwoman to obtain her commercial aviation certificate. She was unconscious with a leg fractured and a foot nearly torn off. Miss O’Brien's pupil, Hon. M. K. Leith, was severely cut in the body and the face. The golfers assisted the spectators to drag out the women and. a man seized the petrol tank, which was smashed off and leaking, and carried it to a distance, eliminating danger of fire. The suffering women were taken to hospital, where Miss O’Brien’s leg was amputated at the knee.. Bystanders pay a tribute to the aviatrix’s pluck. Miss O’Brien, when placed in tho ambulance, despite her pain, askedtlua extent of Miss Leith’s injuries.