'PLANE STRIKES FENCE
SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES
(Received 30th May, 12.35 p.m. BRISBANE, This Day. Later-reports reveal that Miss AmyJohnson’s crash was attended by more serious possibilities than the first news indicated. It appears that her ’plane. struck a barbed wire fence and the machine turned over after knocking ■down a post. She was travelling at ■about ten miles an hour when she hit ■the fence, two posts of which caught in the wings. The ’plane went through the.fence for about five yards, stood on its nose, then finished upside down. When men arrived Amy was lying on the ground. “The petrol is running out/’ she said. “Let me turn it off; I don’t want the machine to catch fire.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 30 May 1930, Page 5
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