PLANE CRASHES IN FIELD OF WHEAT.
MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED AND OCCUPANTS INJURED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHKISTCHURCH, Last Night. Crashing in a field of wheat at Ohoka while its pilot was practising a forced landing, the Canterbury Aero Club's Moth aeroplane ZK—AAW was badly damaged this evening. The two occupants were injured and are now in the Christchurch Public Hospital, but neither is seriously ill. They are: — J. Busch, commercial pilot to the Canterbury Aero Club, injuries to his face and back.
A. C. Baiues, of 139 St.'Asaph street, injuries to head. With its nose pressed into the ground, the engine an exposed and twisted mass, and the two right wings crumplod and torn, the aeroplane was sadly dilapidated' Nothing could be done with it last evening, .but engineers from the Aero Club will begin to dismantle it to-morrow morning. It is not beyond repair.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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