Tiger Moth Plunges During Low Run
... - HASTINGS,, August 21. ' Severe injuries were sustained by the •plot of a Hawke 's Bay and East Coaat Aero Club Ti'ger .Moth when it crashedat Elsthhfpb, = 35 'miles from Hastings^ about midday Saturdayi He iSiLi • ' MORRJf .MSSLife . J&O&fL 'single, lngs together and when that piloted by Dunn' was making a low run over . the Tiff.en estate, it, nose dived iutb the groiind fxom about 50 -feet. Duiin, who was flying solo,- was in the rear nockpit. The front cockpit -was shattered yrken the engine was forced into it . by the impact. Dtinn is in the" Hastings Memorial Hospital suffering from severe head ihjuries and lesser leg injuries. His condition is fairly satisfactory. The plane was severely damaged.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 August 1949, Page 3
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