SOMERSAULT CRASH
PLANE TAKING OFF MASCOT COLLISION SYDNEY, April 14. .Two light- aeroplane® engaged in pleasure flights collided at Mascot aerodrome this afternoon . . - A pilot, B. Shepherd, and-his-two passengers, country men, were slightly injured. His plane was almost wrecked." The accident occurred when 'Mr.. Shepherd, in a Fox Moth, was taking- off, Another machine, a Gipsy Moth, taxi-ing across the.. aerodrome, passed beneath and was struck by the wheels of Mr. Shepherd’s machine, causing the latter to somersault and crash from a height of 7ft. One wing of the Gipsy Moth Was ripped off.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 5
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94SOMERSAULT CRASH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 5
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