Did 'Planes Collide in Mid-air ?
Ten-seater Limps into Port
NO SIGN OF OTHER MACHINE
United Press Association—By Eilectrlo Telegraph.—Copyright.
Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 5.
“Port wheel burst; clear tho aerodrome for arrival at 3.45 p.m.,” was tho sensational wireless message, received at the Renfrew airport from Captain Elgey, flying a ten-seater passenger ’plane from Belfast to Glasgow with two other employees. The 'piano was 4000 feet up over the Irish Sea, flying in a dense mist, when there was a violent bump and oxplosion. Captain Elgey said ho did not know what happened. Ha just waited for tho ’piano to fall to pieces in the sea, but when ho flew from the mist he looked out and saw the greater part of tho undercarriage and wheel had disappeared. Apparently the ’plane had been hit by another aeroplane climbing in the haze..
Captain Elgey miraculously landed the heavy ’plane on the remaining wheel without mishap, swinging the machine round as it touched the ground. He alighted semi-conscious as the result of tho ordeal. What hit (he ’plane is still a mystery as no ’plane is reported missing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 236, 6 October 1936, Page 7
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