PILOT FAILED TO CLEAR BUILDING.
TRIED TO AVOID CROWD ON BEACH WHEN LANDING Per Press Association. GISBORNE, January 2. Further particulars of the Waipiro Bay aviation accident say that the opinion formed by spectators was that Buckeridge, after descending low, decided not to take the risk of landing on the beach till the scattered spectators were clear of the strip he proposed to use, and his care for the safety of the public led to the crash. The ’plane was coming down slowly against the wind. Then the pilot apparently changed his mind and began to lift the machine again. The speed was too slow to enable it to clear a Maori dwelling, and with a startling report from the splintered timbers the 'plane buried its nose in the kitchen of the building. A further accident occurred whilst the injured aviator was being hurried to hospital, the motor-car crashing with another car at a sharp bend on the road. Both vehicles were damaged. Buckeridge was reported to-day to have been discharged from hospital, and is proceeding to Gisborne.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 13
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