ACCIDENT TO AEROPLANE.
LANDS IN PLOUGHED FIELD. PILOT ESCAPES UNINJURED. • Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 13. People in the Spreydon district were horrified at 11 o'clock this morning when an aeroplane, which had been stunting overhead, developed engine trouble, landed in a ploughed field and turned, completely over. Residents of nearby houses rescued the pilot, Captain Noel Vale, from the wrecked machine. Captain Vale’s only injury was a cut over the left eye. His machine was totally wrecked. The machine was stunting about a mile from where the crash occurred. Captain Vale had just come out of a loop when the engine stopped. His Moth began to drop and he made for Barrington park. The open area was full of children and Captain Vale then made for an empty field beyond. He just cleared the telegraph wires, running with the wind. The end of the field on which he landed was in grass, but the ’plane ran on to the ploughed part and immediately turned a somersault. The propeller blades were broken off short and the wings and fuselage crumpled with the impact. The machine, by great good fortune, did not catch fire. The ’plane was one of those supplied bv the Government to the Aero Club. Captain Vale is an experienced pilot and is now a reservist.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 270, 14 October 1929, Page 8
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218ACCIDENT TO AEROPLANE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 270, 14 October 1929, Page 8
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