PLANE CRASHES AT SALISBURY

Timaru Herald, Volume CLII, Issue 22388, 28 September 1942, Page 4

PLANE CRASHES AT SALISBURY

Young Fairview Man Killed Making First Flight Kenneth Walter Cox. aged 27, second son of Mr and Mrs W’. J. Cox, Fairview, was killed yesterday when the plane he was flying crashed on the farm of Mr L. P. Cabot, Salisbury, shortly before 4 p.m. The cause of the mishap is not yet known. It is stated that the plane took off, after much difficulty, from one of Mr Cox’s paddocks on the Rocky Hundreds road, Fair view, and flew over into the gully on Mr Cabot’s property between the Rocky Hundreds road and the main road to Otipua. The plane was a single-engined, single-seater, privately-owned machine. Residents of the district heard the roar of a motor earlier in the day, suggesting that an endeavour was being made to get a plane into the air. Eye-witnesses said that the machine was flying very low. The engine had an exceptionally loud roar. The plane was seen flying down the gully above a small creek and it was approaching a plantation when the crash occurred. It fell about two chains short of the trees with its nose pointing in the direction from which it had come. The Timaru Police were informed of the crash by telephone and Dr G. R. Kingston was summoned. When the doctor arrived he found Cox dead, he having suffered very severe injuries. Cox who was a carpenter by trade was unmarried. He acquired the plane about a month ago and this was his first flight. He was not an experienced pilot.