Forced Landing Without Mishap
LOST HIS WAY IN MISTY It AIN E’er Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. A forced landing without damage to .lie pilot or machine was made at Brixton, near Waitara, on Saturday afternoon by Mr. Hon Carlson, of Okoroire. The machine left Hamilton at 12.45 in fair weather but soon ran into thick misty rain, Tho pilot wandered inland flying blind, but at 2 p.m. reached the coast at Awakino. He flew over the New Plymouth aerodromo without seeing it and passed over the outskirts of New Plymouth. He passed again near the aerodromo which was hidden in mist. At Brixton at 3.3 p.m. the petrol gave out and the pilot luckily brought the machine down safely with a tail wind. The Moth machine was taken to the aerodrome to-day by road.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 289, 7 December 1936, Page 6
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