AIR CRASH AT HARROW.
BOMBING PLANE WRECKED
NEW ZEALAND FLYING OFFICER
Four officers and two men of the Royal Air Force were injured when u, Hyderabad six-seater bombing aeroplane mado a forced landing and crashed in one of the Harrow School playing fields on February 15. The aeroplane was being flown from Oxford to the Cricklewood aerodrome. When over Harrow trouble developed in one of the engines, due to frost, and the machine encircled the hill several times at a low altitude in search of a landing place. Following an explosion in the port engine, the machine descended into ono ot the football fields off Watford Road, Harrow. As it neared the ground it struck some goalposts, zig-zagged over the ground, crashed into the trunk of a tree, and buried its nose in the ground. The petrol-tank burst and a large quantity of petrol escaped, but luckily it did not ignite. The machine was completely wrecked. Flying-Officer Percy Hill broke his collar-bone, Flying-Officer William R. Worstall ’injured his ribs, and Mechanic John Harvey suffered cuts on the head. The other occupants, FlyingOfficers J. F. Moir, of Christchurch New Zealand, and H. C. V. Jolleff, and Leading-Aircraftsman G. Jones, escaped with minor injuries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 2
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