FORCED LANDING.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 8

FORCED LANDING.

».- « , e'- . ' \ l AIR FORCE MACHINES £-. ' . r DAMAGED. S „ V . /' W<> \ v' I " V*'V. * 0 MISHAP ;AT GERALQJNE. . \ Two' Air Force Moth turning from the Otago A#ro Club's Pageant, one piloted by er S. Grant Dalton, Director .of Air Services, and tho other by Ktfiff Serjj geant fl. - Simpson, crashed.nt SUyjert£#£ near Geraldino, at albout 3.0 o'clock, terday morning.' Both machines were' damaged, one fairly. 'dxten&ively. Apparently thfi nushap was caused, through tho aeroplanes striking an air pocket, for it is stated that atmospheric conditions at the time "were ally bad, with> lightning, thunder, 49 j low clouds, ais thfit t[b? forced to tho gsound without- Warning. The Moths landed almost simultaneously on rough ground a quarter of a mile from the homestead of MrJ.M. H. Tripp. „ One, a wooden Mothi Sergeant Simpfloa,' iuta xße' j&djsje age totally' wredked, - jefnd- thV?P r F^ smashed. FoHiori,of tha' 'tinaerc&rcN. age was forc'oi m pilofcJft seat, and it is 1 cupant was not,-injured. : is now bjM^^ha^^ for repairs. J c' The &oth under tlie control o£ ; Commander Grtuatc JJaltoit," ™>F „ ' chine, was-not greatly td&magecl, ,a»d itwas hoped that, after being-repaired it ; -could ,be fIOVA tp. Ohrirtoh.w^'MjiwlaS'A Theri eadroi*Uw2 ' aeroplanes, one of those | Sergeant -jL A, <?.l>iip; v { , • Attfynlgh .the mafthinsa<yfp* £ ently making wr >flSe \ diffloult to aefcotuit tor their *lo gB the time o£ x the- fp* , >« deto»r-,»QAId -have; .to ipaM.ovpr .ffityirta*.■s£ yt&yHp \ The damaged .'aepoplape ■ ant on 'S4tuiaair>*ana^W^^^ ¥i 'ohief.niecha^c^t>Wig?lim;"I I WELLINGTON AKBOPLANE ; EOtfCBD/ * tion ally trough.: trip»i;jAlt~ , went well until.^pproachia|f^lu^U}im' jrt %%>&? is ibnr fcovrg>ba/ttte\as*i)ui; !»«#? irN|,! from Chiistchprch.- Patrol L axmplias <raijk low. ■ '« . 4 »■ /• Ttfjf-G. A. 'Stedman i. Acro' CluK'who' hli^ " l ,C, W»it« M ia !' Spartan; made' #• \ paddock St Blind • Ktvae, ta ! Mr J. Costello. . THe turned, smashijig" the". a'rmcn cacaped unhurt,. .-/ ~Vi , Mi JamiesOn,' of Wblliijtgjojj^^yiag'' solo ik M»th,.turned,baek-and landto ?a£ely Vthe . Th«{, .otter -iwa. fJ Sinclair, oi ; Donald, of Wellington,"' r.oaohed heim with betrol vakhariiitiafl,able'to ? frgm T7ellingion. ; | .The maT &y,home ;w&n tihe.'weathei s: at yastnrdny'a mooting of'the Selwvn . Plantations Board, wheji. jfte were 'discussing the (■ Horot&ta-Dunaandel district, r, *?so much ,v as the scowhing gtlaat of,the nor'westers. Where a young plantation has been growing in the shelter of an old ' One the young treeis. uearMt;tha 1 shelter 4 are st 11 alive, while the 'ones' jnrthosi away, have been * agreed that it had not any't* means, the driest yeaY on TcScord, and i one mentioned <tfie year olj the Christ- 1 Exhibition, been' i » 1 ■ ■ < It With sccondrdass tools. Thejtoat is the M, ii'oS all J<our jtools 'SnIK. "and Fiokexing, where you iHtf always find *