TWO INJURED WHEN PLANE HITS TREE IN A FORCED LANDING
WHAKATANE, Last night (PA). A Gipsy Moth aeroplane crashed ai Pekatahi, near Taneat.ua, this afternoon and the pilot and one of the two passengers were injured and admitted to Whakatane Hospital. They are Stanley J. Blackmore, of Rotorua, pilot of the machine, who received concussion and lacerations; and Miss Jessie Cockburn, of Taupo, qca’p wounds. The other passenger, Lindsay Cotton, of Dannevirke, was not injured. The plane, which was owned by Blackmore Brothers, of Rotorua, was flying from Opotiki to Rotorua over Pekatahi when the motor cut out at 2000 feet. The pilot attempted to make a forcer! landing. The plane struck a tree and was completely wrecked.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1950, Page 5
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