CRASH NEAR BRISBANE
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT CONDITION OF MINISTER (Received June 12, 10.15 p.m.) BRISBANE, June 12 The aoroplano which crashed yesterday, 47 miles from Brisbane, causing injuries to the Federal Minister of Health, Mr. W. M. Hughes, was piloted by Mr. J. McLaehlan, who had been flying blind for more than an hour. In landing, a wing of the machine struck a fence. Mr. Hughes was admitted to hospital, but expressed himself as being thankful for his miraculous escape. The condition of Mr. Hughes to-day is satisfactory. "If I had been a betting man I would cheerfully have given odds at 50 to 1 against our getting down safely," he observed in an interview. Mr. Hughes, who is now 71 years old, insisted upon eating a three-course meal and reading a newspaper before allowing the doctor to attend to his fractured collarbone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 13
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