AIR COLLISION
PLANE’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
UNDERCARRIAGE DAMAGED
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph— Copyright).
LONDON, October 4
“Port wheel burst. Clear the aerodrome for arrival at 3.40.p.m.” This was the sensational wireless message received at the juentrew airport form Captain Elgey, who "as flying a 10-seater passenger aeroplane from Belfast to Glasgow with two other employees of the company on board. .
The aeroplane was at 4000 feet qver the Irish Sea, flying in dense mist when there was a violent bump and an explosion. Captain Elgey said he did not know what had happened. He just waited for • the aeroplane to fall to pieces in the sea, but when he flew out of the mist he looked out and saw that the greater part of flie undercarriage a,nd the port wheel had disappeared. Apparently the aeroplane had been hit by another aeroplane climbing in the haze. Captain Elgey miraculously landed the heavy aeroplane on the remaining wheel without mishap, stringing ”the» machine round as it touched.grpund. . What hit the Aeroplane'• is still a mystery. No afcroplanle is reported missing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1936, Page 5
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