MOTH AEROPLANE WRECK
PILOT’S FORTUNATE ESCAPE; HAD TO AVOID CHILDREN’S PARK. CRASH IN PLOUGHED PADDOCK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. People in the Sprcydon district were horrified at 11 o’clock this morning when an aeroplane which had been stunting overhead developed engine trouble, landed on a ploughed. field and turned completely over. Residents in nearby houses rescued the pilot, Captain Noel Vale, from the wrecked machine. Captain Vale’s only injury was a cut over the left eye.' The machine was to-, tally wrecked. • The aeroplane was stunting about a mile from where the crash occurred. Captain Vale had just come out of a loop when the engine stopped. The Moth began to drop and Captain Vale made for Barringston Park, The open area was full of children and Vale then made for the empty field beyond. He just cleared the telegraph wires, running with the wind and being unable to make the farther end of the field, which was in grass. He landed on this but the plane ran on to the ploughed part of the field and turned a somersault.
The propeller blades were broken off short and the wings and fuselage crumpled with the impact. The machine, by great good fortune, did not catch fire.
The plane was one of those supplied by the Government to the Aero Club. Captain Vale is an experienced pilot and is now a reservist.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1929, Page 11
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