UPSIDE-DOWN CRASH.
Stunting Aeroplane Tore Roof off Car. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, September 20. Hundreds of people watching an air circus at Seaton, Aberdeen, recently, were startled when one of the “stunt” aeroplanes, while flying upside down, crashed into a stationary motor-car on the beach esplanade. The plane ripped the roof of the car off, and nose-dived into a bank of the River Don. The pilot and occupants of the car had miraculous escapes from serious injury, though three young lads standing near the car were struck by flying fragments of wreckage and received minor injuries. The three occupants of the car were only slightly cut and bruised, and when a large crowd ran to the assistance of the pilot, Mr William Stevenson, they found that he had scrambled clear of his wrecked machine unhurt. The pilot stated that while flying low his plane went into an air pocket and dived, and before he could right it the machine struck the roof of the motor-
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 1
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