FORCED LANDING
VICKERS WELLESLEY BOMBER CREW OF FIVE ESCAPE SYDNEY, 28th November. During a test flight to-day before departing for Canberra and Melbourne to-morrow, one of the record-breaking Vickers Wellesley bomber, was compelled to make a forced landing in a ploughed field near Richmond. The undercarriage was considerably damaged and one wheel was torn off by the force of the impact. The crew of five were not injured but received a severe shaking. A farmer engaged in fallowing had to fall on his face to avoid being struck by a wing of the plane, and his horse bolted. The paddock where the mishap occurred belonged to a farmer, Mr Malcolm Smith, whose father was decapitated by an air force plane which made a forced landing three years ago in the same place. Mr R. Somerville, the pilot of that particular plane, later married Mr Smith’s daughter, and was afterwards killed when an air force plane crashed at Point Cook.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 29 November 1938, Page 5
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