Invercargill Plane Crash Finding
WELLINGTON, Thu. (P.AJ—-"In the opinion of the inspector of aircraft accidents, this accident was duo to loss of flying speed while in a voluntary steep turn, which resulted in a dive into the ground from a height which was too low to permit recovery to be made," said the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr Jones), in a statement released today on the circumstances of the fatal crash of a Percival Proctor aircraft at Invercargill on June 5, causing the death of the four occupants.
A report on the accident has been made by the inspector, who stated that the aircraft was overloaded, and that its certificate of airworthiness classification in the normal category prohibited any abrupt changes in height. There was no evidence of pre-crash failure of the aircraft, which was owned by the Otago Aero Club, or its* engine, and weather conditions did not contribute to the accident. The aircraft, immediately after taking ofr, circled the aerodrome, dived past the clubhouse, climbed and then commenced another circuit toward the clubhouse, during the course of which it went into a steep turn, from which it dived into the ground.
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1949, Page 5
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