EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO AEROPLANE
REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF PILOT (United Press Association) GREYMOUTH, September 19. While practising landings at the Hokitika aerodrome this afternoon a civil reserve trainee, Edward Russell Orr, of Alexander street, Greymouth, had the misfortune to come in rather short with the result that the plane which he was flying was extensively damaged. Orr had a remarkable escape from serious injury, being completely unhurt. The accident occurred about 2 o’clock and the pilot in landing at the southern end of the aerodrome collided with a stack of rails; the West Coast United Aero Club’s Moth plane ZK-AAZ having the undercarriage carried away and the propeller broken and the centre section and lower wings severely fractured. The plane, which was purchased by the United Aero Club from the Wellington Aero Club over two years ago had been recently used in training club and civil reserve pilots at Greymouth and Hokitika.
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Southland Times, Issue 23309, 20 September 1937, Page 6
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