THRILLING SCENE
PLANE LANDS IN GARDEN.
LUCK AND SKILL SAVE DIS-
ASTER
(Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, February 2. Luck and skill combined averted a disaster when an Avro biplane piloted by Mr. Richard Bush, who was accompanied by Mr. Stanley Rodwell, hurtled down and was forced to land in a garden 20 by 30 feet in Gresham Road, the busiest portion of Brixton, narrowly missing a house. Bush was seriously injured and Rodwell slightly. The plane was one of three taking flying shots for an electric picture. Mi*. Reginald Freeman, the_ occupant of the house, was working in his garden when an extraordinary rattle caused his wife to rush to the back door where she saw the machine swoop past a tree in the garden, smash down the garden wall, and plunge into the next-door lawn, where the machine embedded its nose in the ground after narrowly missing herself. Rodwell crawled from the wreckage and extricated Bush from the crumpled wreckage. Both were taken to hospital.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3262, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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