MID-AIR COLLISION.
Passenger ’Plane Struck Violently. WHILE FLYING OVER IRISH SEA. ITKT>F.RC ARRIAGE AND WHEEL CUT AWAY. PILOT MAKES SAFE LANDING. (Received Monday, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. * * Port wheel burst. Clear the aerodrome for arrival at 3.45 p.m.’' • was the sensational wireless message received at Renfrew Airport from Captain Elgey, 'flying a tenseater passenger ’plane from Belfast to Glasgow with two other employees. The ’plane was four thousand feet up over the Irish Sea, flying in a dense mist, when there was a violent bump and explosion. Captain Elgey said he did not know what happened. He just ■waited for the ’plane to fall to pieces in the sea, but when he flew from the mist he looked out and saw that the greater part of the undercarriage and a wheel had disappeared. Apparently the ’plane had been hit by another aeroplane climbing in the haze. CapItain Elgey miraculously landed the heavy ’plane on its remaining wheel without mishap, swinging the machine round as it touched the ground. He alighted semi-conscious as a result of his ordeal. What hit the ’plane is still a mystery. No *plane is reported missing. '
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Wairarapa Age, 6 October 1936, Page 5
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