CHILDREN HURT IN AEROPLANE SMASH.
Per Press Association. TE AROHA, December 10. While taxi-ing down a field at Waihou preparatory to taking two children for a flight yesterday afternoon, the pilot of a Blackburn Bluebird had the misfortune to strike a boundary fence. The ’plane toppled over the fence, resting on the right wing, and crumpling it and smashing the propeller blades. The two passengers were injured. John Crowsdale, aged twelve, sustained a deep cut on the right knee and was removed to the Waikato Hospital. Kathleen Wauman, aged six, received head and face injuries.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 10
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