AEROPLANE DAMAGED.
FORCED LANDING AT HORNBY. MACHINE STRIKES A FENCE. [BI TELEGRAPH. —OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHTJRCH, Saturday. Through -crashing into a wire fence after a forced landing near the Hornby railway station owing to engine trouble the undercarriage of an Avro training aeroplane, piloted by Second-Lieutenant K. A. McKenzie, suffered considerable damage, and one of the propeller blades was snapped off. Several smaller parts of the engine were damaged. The pilot was unhurt-. As the machine was flying over the Hornby station at an altitude of about 1000 ft. the top of one of the cyclinders broke. The pilot made a forced landing in a paddock opposite the station, but the area of ground was too small to allow him to check or turn the machine before it crashed into a wire fence, tb« wires breaking a propeller blade and tearing at the unrifercarriage. Second-Lieutenant McKenzie is one of the officers undergoing the refresher course at Sockbura.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19276, 15 March 1926, Page 8
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156AEROPLANE DAMAGED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19276, 15 March 1926, Page 8
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