£5000 DAMAGES AWARDED
DEATH IN AEROPLANE CRASH PILOT HELD TO BE NEGLIGENT. ECHO OF ACCIDENT AT WAIROA. MACHINE LOSES FLYING SPEED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. “I find on the evidence that the accident was due to the negligence of Ivan Louis Kight in attempting, to turn into the wind at too low an altitude at a low rate of speed, thereby causing the machine to lose flying speed and nosedive.” This decision is contained in. a judgment by Mri Justice Reed in an interesting case heard in the Supreme Court in ‘September, in which William Thomas Strand, Mayor of Lower Hutt, as administrator of the estate of his late eon, William Charles Strand, claimed £5OOO damages from Dominion Airlines, Ltd. (in voluntary liquidation). The case was a sequel to a fatal aeroplane crash near Wairea, as the result of which Pilot Kight and two passengers, including Strand, were killed. The Judge said the plaintiff was entitled to succeed, and he awarded £6OOO damages against the company.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 4
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