PLANE STRIKES BANK

Grey River Argus, 25 May 1935, Page 5

PLANE STRIKES BANK

QUEENSLANDERS INJURED. ESCAPE FROM INCINERATION. (Received Mav 24, 8.50 p.m.) BRISBANE. May 24. A privately-owned aeroplane struck a bank at Dai by The plain- overturned, and then caught iiie. The owner, Pilot A. Garrow, sustained minor injuries, while two companions, M. Cosgrove ami Lionel Ward were critically injured. An eye-witness swung the tail of the machine into a creek, and thus saved the men from being burned to death. AUCKLAND PLANE’S MISHAP. HITS A FENCE. AUCKLAND, May 24. Extensive damage resulted to a sports Avian aeroplane, owned by the Auckland Aero Club, when the ma chine struck a fence, a? it was about to land at Hobsonville air base The machine was piloted by Aubrey Brec kon, who had as passenger a mechanic from Mangere aerodrome, but both occupants escaped injury. The Avian struck the ground on its nose, and the propeller was broken. Damage also resulted to the wings and the undercarriage and it was upon examination, that ‘he strain caused generally by the crash would make the reconstruction of the frame necessary. The engine was evidently unaffected.

U.S.A. SEAPLANE TRAGEDY. SIX LIVES LOST. HONOLULU, May 23. Six United States Navy flip’s wor • killed on Tuesday nigh 1 ’ when a big seaplane, 6.P.7., suddenly wont into a spin and crashed into the ocean during the Fleet manoeuvres in mid Pacific. The accident occurred fifty miles south of Midway Island, when the plane was responding to calls for help from another bomber which had been forced to land in the sea. * It is presumed that G.P.7. crashed j a 1 full speed, as only small pieces of I the wreckage were located. PILOT VTCTTMTSEF? HAWERA. May 24. Thait the methods adopted bv the Western Federated (North Inland) Flying Club in conducting investigation into fell far below the l standards of a British Court of jutice, was the opinion expressed by the Hawera Aero Chib at a meeting of the committee. It was decided to demand of the Federation:— (1) That the charges against a pilot be formulated in writing; (2) That the pilot concerned be given opportunity of perusing the statements of eye-witnesses or others, from whom evidence has been procured: (3) That such statements be read to him at the investigation; (4) That the pilot concerned be entitled to engage counsel for his defence; (5) That he be confronted for crossexamination by those who accuse him. This decision was arrived at following the recent investigation by the Federation of the crash at Morrinsville. of Z.K.-A.C.H. piloted by Brian Haybittie. Hawera, who was censured by the Federation and ordered to pay £4O towards the cost of repairing the plane.