FORCED LANDING MADE
PJLOT'S FEAT IN DARK UNABLE TO FIND 'DROME (Per Press Association.) A.UCKXAND, .last night. Unable to'locate the aerodrome owing to failing light, Mr. A. Baines, pilot of a Spartan biplane, which arrived aj Mangere": f?6m timaru shortly after dusk . ..on .Saturday evening, made a successful'forced landing in a paddock "cm a farm about two and a-"" half miles, from the •aerodrome. The machine, which .is owned by'T 'Jtfew 1 'Zeajand Airways, Limited,' wife * .aQfev-clainaged- i% aß y w ay, and was • flown across to the aerodrome this morning. iMr.' Bai'nes,".who was; carrying a passenger, Mr. H. L. Grant, of Christchurch, had left Timaru at 6.45 a.m. on Saturday. . ( Aero club pilots consider that Mr. B.aines showed considerable skill in landing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18988, 13 April 1936, Page 9
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