AIR FORCE PLANE
I ♦ CRASH INTO LAKE ;j THREE OCCUPANTS ESCAPE , i SERIOUS HARM It)niter) Presp Asunrialinnl i CHRISTCHURCH. 9th June. While carrying out air-firing prae- • tice over Lake Ellesmere about 9.30 ’ o’clock this morning. a R.N.Z.A.F. Vickers Vildebeest machine crashed into the water. “ The pilot had turned the machine into the sun. One of the wings hit the 1 water and the machine turned over. : The pilot was Acting-Pilot Officer R. ‘ M. Stewart, and the other occupants J j were Acting-Pilot officers V. B. de la J Perelle and J. C. F. Hayter. ’ The occupants escaped injury except for minor bruises and cuts. The plane was extensively damaged. Acting-Pilot Officer .1. C. F. Hayter is a son of Mr and Mrs Hayter, of Takaka.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 8
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