A CRASH LANDING
PILOT BLINDED BY OIL. REMARKABLE ESCAPE. (Rec. 11.30). SYDNEY, January 28. Blinded with oil whipped into his face by the slipstream, a Royal Navy test pilot to-da crash-landed a Corsair fighter at Kellyville with one foot on th? wing, and the other foot in the cockpit. The Corsair hit high tension wires, and ploughed 300 yards through four fences, which tore out the engine, and the plane then burst, into' flames. The' pilot was soaked in petrol and oil, but he escaped with minor cuts on the forehead. ■When he had reached an altitude of a few hundred feet, a gasket blew out, and fuel sprayed over him. Blinded byi oil, he could not get. clear until the plane was too low for a parachute jump. When a rescue party reached the blazing wreckage, the pilot was already standing twenty yards clear.
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Grey River Argus, 29 January 1946, Page 4
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