PILOTS ESCAPE WHEN DAKOTA CRASHES
Received Tuesdav, 7.50 p.m. BYDNEY, June 3. A Dakota airliner on a test liiglit craslied into a hili 011 the BlacktownWindsor road near Sydney this al't/rnooii. Tiie pilot and eo-opilot, who were the oniy occupants, are reported sat'e but the airliner was complotely wrecked. An early report is that tlie aireraft was earrying out a single engined fliglit and lniiding test at the R.A.A.F. airJield at Schoiield about three miles i'rimi the scene of the erash. This type oi' aireraft can normallv tly in perfeet sai'ety on one of its two engines. An observer said the plane had com]>!et ed one eireuit of the aerodroine and was making a seeond wlien it suddenly seenied to stall, lose height rapidly and erasii. A eloin! of sinoke was seen to ldllow froin the wreckage. The two pilots had a remarkable eseape froni injury as the plane struek the ground in wooded eountry with a resoiiuding roar, seattering pieees over a wide area. Tliey senuulded from the twisted fuselage a few soeonds before it was engulfed in fianies. Two other nien reaehed t.he snioking wreckage and jieereil inside jnst as the plane took fire from and to end.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1947, Page 5
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