A PLANE WRECKED.
A EPREYDON ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday.
People in the'Spreydon district were horrified at 11 o’clock ’ this morning when an aeroplane which had been stunting overhead developed engine trouble, landed in a ploughed field and turned completely over. Residents of nearby houses rescued the pilot, Captain Noel ‘ Vale, from his wrecked machine. Captain Yale’s only injury w'as a cut over his left eye. The machine was totally wrecked. Captain Vale was stunting about a mile from where the erash occurred. He had just come out of a loop when the engine stopped. The Moth began to drop and the pilot made for Barrington Park. The open area waS full of children, and Captain Vale then made for an empty field beyond. He just cleared some telegraph wires, run-ning-with the wind and being unable to make any ascent. The end of the field was in grass, on which he landed, but the - ’plane ran on to the ploughed part and immediately turned a somersault. The propeller blades were broken off short and the wings and fusilage were crumpled with the impact. The machine, by great good fortune, did not catch fire. It was one of those supplied by the Government to the Aero Club. Captain Vale is an experienced pilot, now a reservist.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 October 1929, Page 5
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