FORCED DOWN
PETROL PIPE BURSTS,
PLANE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED
(Pet Press Association. —Corjrißht.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day
While flying to Wellington early this morning to participate in an aerial pageant, Lieut, Allan, assistantinstructor to the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club—who had as a passenger in a Moth plane, Mr N. F, Reed, of Havelock North—had to make a forced landing at Tiratu. The plane left Hastings at 0.20 o’clock and had a bumpy flight against a bead wind.
About seven o’clock, when over Tiratu, the petrol pipe leading to the carburettor burst and it became urgently necessary to descend. Lieut. Allen circled round in search of a landing and safely descended in a paddock, 12 chains in length, on Mr A. H. Pollock’s farm near the Tipapakuku factory. When landing, the plane just grazed the top of a belt of trees and missed a wire fence.
The plane is being brought to Dannevirke for repairs and will probably remain here today.
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Northern Advocate, 15 November 1929, Page 5
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