’PLANE CRASHES
DISASTER NARROWLY AVERTEI
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 3rd February. 11 a.m.) LONDON, .2nd February. Luck and skill combined averted a disaster when an Avro biplane, piloted by Richard Bush, aecomuanied by Stanley Rodvvcll, hurtled • down and was forced lo land in a garden twenty by thirty feet in Orcisbam road, the busiest portion of Broxton, narrowly missing a house. Bush was seriously injured and Rochvell slightly. The ’plane was one of three taking Hying shots for an Elstree picture. Reginald Freeman, occupant of the house, was working when an extraordinary rattle caused his wife lo rush to the back door where she saw the machine Swoop past a tree in the garden, smash down the garden wall, and plunge into the next door lawn and imbed its nose in the ground after narrowly missing herself. Eodwell crawled •from the wreckage and extricated Bush. Both were taken to hospital.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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152’PLANE CRASHES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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