MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
’PLANE! FALLS IN GARDEN.
DISASTER TO MOVIE CAMERA
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph
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LONDON Feb. 2-.
Luck and skill combined averted disaster when ail Avro ’biplane piloted by Richard Busli, accompanied by Stanley Rod well, hurtled down and was forced to land in a garden twenty by thirty feet on the Gresham Road,' the busiest- portion of Brixton, narrowly missing a house. Bush was seriously injured and Rodwell slightly. Tlie ’plane was one of the three takng flying shots for an Elstree moving picture.
Reginald Freeman, occupant of the house, was working when an extraordinary rattle caused his wife to rush to the hack door, where she saw t_by , machine swoop past- a tree in the den, smash down a garden wa It aiy.fi 1 ulunge into the next door lawn. It .buried its nose in the ground! after 'narrowly missing herself. Rod well crawled from the wreckage and extricated Busli from the crumpled wreckige. both were taken to hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 4 February 1931, Page 6
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