LOSS OF AEROPLANE
INQUIRY TO BE REOPENED By Telegraph—Fresp Association NEW PLYMOUTH, March 17. The inquiry into the forced landing by Wilson Potaka, or Wanganui, in a Moth aeroplane in a river basin in the Kaimanawa Ranges on January 8 is to be reopened by the Western Federated Fying :Club as a result of representations by Potaka’s solicitor that all the evidence available at the original hearing was not brought out at the original hearing. Potaka was disqualified from flying for 12 months and ordered to pay the cost of salvaging the machine. It was alleged that Potaka flew beyond the route for which he had been given permission.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20679, 18 March 1937, Page 6
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109LOSS OF AEROPLANE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20679, 18 March 1937, Page 6
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