’PLANE PANCAKES
MINOR INJURIES TO PILOT. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Dec. 15. One of the Marlborough Aero Club’s machines, a Moth, was extensively damaged at 3.40 o’clock this afternoon when it figured in a pancake landing on the Blenheim Aerodrome. Minor injuries were received by the sole occupant, John Patrick Scott Stocker, aged 24, a Civil Reserve trainee, who is a son of Mr G. K. I. Stocker, dentist, Blenheim. Mr Stocker, making his first solo flight, was coming into an otherwise perfect approach to land in the middle of the aerodrome when he flattened out about 10 feet above the ground and pancaked, the machine turning on to its back.
Help was immediately at hand and the pilot was quickly extricated. He received cuts on the face, bruises, and slight shock, and was admitted to hospital for -treatment and observation. The principal damage to the machine is a. broken back near the forward cockpit. As none of the club’s other three ’planes is at present available for training, the considerable activity in this direction will be suspended in the meantime.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 14
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181’PLANE PANCAKES Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 14
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