PLANE CRASHES AT PEKATAHI TWO ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL; MACHINE COMPLETELY WRECKED
A Desoutter aeroplane crashed at Pekatahi on Wednesday afternoon and the pilot and one of the two passengers are in the Whakatane Hospital. ,
are:— Stanley J. Blackmore, of Rotorua, the pilot who received concussion and lacerations. Miss Jessie Cockburn, of Terraces Hotel, Taupo, scalp wounds. The other passenger, Lloyd Lindsay Cotton, of Dannevirke, was not injured. The plane was owned by Blackmore brothers, of Rotorua, and was flying from Opotiki to Rotorua. Over Pekatahi the motor cut out at 2,000 feet and/ the pilot attempted a forced landing. The plane struck a tree in a paddock and was completely wrecked. The wrecked machine was under i police guard until the arrival of an Air Department official to inspect it. The plane crashed on Mr Neil Reid’s property. Mr Reid said the aircraft approached from Opotiki over the Waimana Hills. When it was over Taneatua the engine appeared to fail. As the Desoutter flew over his farm it was losing height. It crossed the railway line and swung L the south out of sight over a hedge and immediately afterward a crash was heard.
Mr Reid telephoned for assistance and several other men ran to .the aircraft about 400 yards away.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 18, 10 November 1950, Page 5
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211PLANE CRASHES AT PEKATAHI TWO ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL; MACHINE COMPLETELY WRECKED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 18, 10 November 1950, Page 5
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