Pilot and Passenger Narrowly Escape Injury
’PLANE STRIKES HEDGE AND CAPSIZES. Per Press Association. OAMARU, Last Night. Shortly after noon to-day the aeroplane ZK-AAW, privately owned and piloted by Vincent Cotton, of Christchurch, crashed into, a gorse hedge and turned turtle when attempting to laud in a paddock on Alajor 11. S. Orbell’s property at Eveline, a few miles north of Oamaru.
The pilot and tho passenger, 11. Hahn, also of Christchurch, had a very narrow escape, being uninjured apart from slight cuts to Hahn’s forehead and knee. Both suffered slightly from shock.
It appears that Cotton was bringing Hahn, who is a photographer, to Oamaru to take photographs of tho Waitaki Boys’ High School and was attempting to land in a field not very far distant from the school, when tho ’plane over-ran on account of an assisting wind, crashed through a gorse hedge and completely overturned somo yards out from tho hedge in an adjoining paddock. The propellor of tho ’plane was broken off, tho wings broken and other fairly extensive breakages caused to various parts of the machine. It is remarkable how the occupants of the ’plane escaped serious injury.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 290, 8 December 1936, Page 6
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