MISHAP TO AEROPLANE.
EMPTY HOUSE STRUCK.
PILOT SLIGHTLY INJURED.
[by telegeaph.— peess association.] GTSBORNE. Thurnday.
A mishap occurred to a Commercial Airways aeroplane fit Waipiro Bn;; this afternoon, as the reisutt of which the pilot, Mr. J. Buckeridge, was taken ti> tha Te Puia Hospital ivith a cut abovß one eye. His injury is not serious. Tho aeroplane was cor-s:iderab!y damaged. The machine, a Spartan biplane, left Gisborne about two o'clock for the coast, to undertake passenger flights. • Mr. Frank Petre, of Wellington, wa3 « passenger.
On arrival at Waipiro Bay the aeroplane was about to '.and on the beach when it stalled and struck an 'Empty house. Both occupants were thrown oufc, but Mr. Petre was; not injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 8
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