FLYING DOCTOR UNINJURED
AEROPLANE CRASHES IN WILDS. WALKS 10 MILES TO HOMESTEAD. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, June 2. A radio message was received to-day from Darwin saying that Dr. C. C. Fenton’s aeroplane crashed about 10 miles from the Victoria Downs cattle station, in an inhospitable part of the Northern Territory, and that Dr. Fention walked into the Victoria River Downs cattle station uninjured, though badly shaken. The machine was wrecked. Dr. Woolnough, geologist adviser to the Commonwealth Government, who was reported to be in the aeroplane wnen it crashed, was not with Dr. Fenton, who was alone at the time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 5
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