’PLANE WRECKED.
Touches Ground when Flying Low. BURSTS INTO FLAMES. (Special to the “ Star/’) MASTERTON, March 4. The Wairarapa Aero Club’s plane ZKAAM was destroyad to-day while being piloted in fast flying test flights by Flying-Officer J. M. Buckeridge. The machine was speeding at 110 miles an hour close to the ground, when it touched. This brought the undercarriage back and threw the machine on its nose. The propeller was smashed off, the engine raced and the machine burst into flames. Flying-Officer Buckeridge jumped out and escaped serious injury, though be suffered minor abrasions. Only the metal parts of the ’plane were left when the flames subsided. The machine was being flown at a very low altitude for the sake of accurate speed recording, in preparation for the North Island pageant. ZKAAM was on loan to the club from the Government. It was the first machine to be used in club work in New Zealand.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 27 (Supplement)
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