AEROPLANE CRASH
PASSENGER INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. An aeroplane which went to Porter’s Pass to-dav to pick up an injured man and bring him to hospital, crashed in a clover field oft the. middle of Lincoln Road to-day. Mr S. A. Gibbons, pilotinstructor of the Canterbury Aero Club, left in a Fox Moth about noon, with Mr R. S. Taylor, builder, of Wairarapa Road, as a passenger. Another aeroplane went with him. Mr Gibbons landed safely at Porter ’s, Pass and took .the injured man on board. Mr Gibbons’ aeroplane came lower in search of an open field, but so thick was the fog and mist that he could not sea the ground till only a few feet from it. He struck heavily on one wing, just missing two haystacks. Mr Gibbons was unhurt. Mr Taylor received head and face injuries, but after treatment at hospital was sent home in the ambulance. Pierr, the injured man, already in a grave condition, suffered from shock, but , seemed not to have suffered an yother hurt. The aeroplane is badly smashed and is probably a total loss. It has been in. possession of the Aero Club about two years. It had recently been overhauled and was valued at £1400.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 June 1936, Page 5
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