PLANES FORCED TO LAND
UAD WEATHKB IN north island I Untied Press Association! NEW PLYMOUTH, 12th June. Bad weather prevented tv\u air force Airspeed Oxford bombing aeroplanes from completing a (light from Christchurch to Auckland to-day. One piloted hv Flying Officer J. Killian lauded at New Plymouth amt the other ut Palmerston North this afternoon to await better conditions. The two machines left Wigram together but lost touch and were advised by radio not to continue. The weather also caused the descent at New Plymouth of the Public Works Department’s Whitney Straight monoplane e’t route from Wellington to Hamilton, piloted by Mr A. M. Pritchard, departmental aerodrome inspecting engineer.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 13 June 1939, Page 4
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109PLANES FORCED TO LAND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 13 June 1939, Page 4
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