AN AEROPLANE DESTROYED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 4

AN AEROPLANE DESTROYED

t CHRISTCHURCH, Sept 27. One of the' Canterbury Aviation^ Company 6 aeroplanes was destroyed by** fere at Sockburn aerodrome yesterday. * mis type ct accident is common enough m the flying schools of the Old World A pupil, who had gone through 'his training m good, style, and wasraidy to undergo the test for his ticket '"was. about to make a flight. * He took off a little -too suddenly; and the nose of th* machine bumped tike grouted.' That o<jourrenoe is a very ordinary one!'but H. w> happened that on this occasion" the jar which the machine suffered oaiised the petrol pipe to burst. The escaping petrol.was ignited by a spa^k from the engine, and the flames, quickly .spreadto the nacelle. The puplil got out of the machine without suffering* any harm Several members of the company's staff ran to the burning'plane with fire .extinguishers. 'They saved the engine, but the plane iteelf was5 destroyed^ '