AEROPLANE BURNED
I MISHAP AT SOOKSTJBN. ! Press Association. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, September 87. I One of the Canterbury Aviation Company's aeroplanes was destroyed by fire at Sockburn aerodrome yesterday. This typo of accident is common enough in the flying schools of the Old World. A pupil who iiad gono through his training in good style, and was ready to undergo the test for his ticket, was about to make a flight. He took off a little too suddenly, and the nose of the machine bumped the ground. , That occurrence in itself is a very .ordinary one, but it so. happened that on. this occasion the jar which the machine suffered caused tho petrol pipe to burst. The escaping petrol was ignited by a spark from the engine, and the flames quickly spread to the nacelle. The pupil got but of the machine without suffering any harm. ~,"."■ Several members of the company s staff promptly ran to tho burning 'plane with fire-extinguishers. , They saved the engine; but the itself was destroyed. . '.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10087, 28 September 1918, Page 6
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