’Plane Falls on Road
vVHEELS CAUGHT BY WIRE FENCE Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, Last Night. An aeroplane belonging to Mr. M. E. Spiers, director of radio station 3ZR, Greymouth, who was acting as pilot, with Mr. J. A. Hart, contractor, of Greymouth, as a passenger, crashed at mid-day at Wataroa, South Westland. The ’plane was taking off for Jackson’s Bay from a gravelly runway. Failing to rise properly and striking a barbed wire fence, the ’plane carried away the top wire with its wheels and fell on an adjacent road. Messrs. Spiers and Hart escaped serious injury, but the ’plane’s wing and fuselage were damaged, while the propeller lost a olade.
Beyond the road .was a high bank, and also a pool,, of which the ’plane luckily fell short. The machine is to be brought here by lorry. Messrs. Spiers and Hart arrived back to-night.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 2
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145’Plane Falls on Road Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 2
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