HITS A HAYSTACK

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1938, Page 7

HITS A HAYSTACK

FLYING TRAINEE Machine Wrecked [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 1. While doing half an hour’s night flying test for a B Licence, at Wigram last night, a member of the Marlborough Aero Club, nama Speight, made too low an approach when coming in to land. The machine stiuck a haystack on the south side of the aerodrome, and was almost completely wrecked. The pilot escaped with a slight cut on the forehead. Speight had passed all the other tests for the B License in the previous three days, and was doing a night flying test under the observation ol the examining officers of the RN.Z.A.F. He flew the machine, a Canadian Fleet two-seater training biplane, belonging to the Marlborough Club, from Blenheim on Wednesday, and last night was the first clear night on which night flying could be done. Officials of the Club flew down today to inspect the machine. After it had been lifted from the haystack, the wreckage was packed on a lorry for return to Blenheim, except for the engine, the machine is practically a complete “write off.”

Dutch Service Starting BETWEEN SYDNEY AND EAST INDIES. (Received May 1, 7 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 30. It is officially announced that the K.L.M. Dutch Aviation Company, which conducts a service to the East Indies, will start a bi-weekly air service between Batavia and Sydney. On the afternoon of July 3, a Lockheed machine, which is to make the initial journey, sets out from Batavia. It will arrive in Sydney on the afternoon of July 5. It leaves Sydney on the (icturn journey op July 6 INQUEST ON BYAR. (Received May 1, 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 30.. At the inquest into the death of the New Zealander, Colin Byar, late of Dunedin, the medical evidence showed that Byar had lived for three days with a broken neck. The hearing was adjourned, pending an Air Ministry inquiry.