Plane Crashes and Catches on Fire
PILOT ESCAPES INJURY Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Last Night. The Wairarapa Aero Club’s plane ZKAAM was totally destroyed by firo to-day while being piloted in fast flying tests by Flying Officer J. M. Buckeridge. The machine was speeding at lio miles an hour close to the ground when she touched. This brought the under-carriage back and threw the machine on its nose. The propeller was smashed off, allowing tho engine to race, and the machine burst inta flames.
Buckeridge jumped out and escaped serious injury, though ho suffered minor abrasions.
Only the metal parts of tho plane were "left when the flames subsided. The machine was being flown at a very low altitude for the sake of accurate speed recording in preparation for fho North Island pageant. The machine was on loan to the club from the Government and was the flrst machine to be used in club work in New Zealand.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6800, 5 March 1932, Page 6
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