A FORCED LANDING
MACHINE ESCAPES DAMAGE THE PILOT UNINJURED (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec 6.
A forced landing without damage to the pilot or the machine was made at Brixton, near Waitara, on Saturday afternoon by Mr Don Carlson, of Okoroire. The machine left Hamilton at 12.45 in fair weather, but soon ran into thick, misty rain. The pilot wandered inland, flying blind, but at 2 p.m. reached the coast at Awakino. He flew over the New Plymouth Aerodrome without seeing it, passed over the outskirts of New Plymouth, and passed again near the aerodrome hidden in the mist. At Brixton at 3.30 p.m. his petrol gave out. and the pilot luckily brought his machine down safely with a tail wind.
The Moth machine was taken to the aerodrome to-day by road.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23057, 7 December 1936, Page 13
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134A FORCED LANDING Otago Daily Times, Issue 23057, 7 December 1936, Page 13
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