AEROPLANE DESTROYED BY FIRE
ACCIDENT AT SOCKBURN AERODROME. By* Telegraph.—Press "Association. ChristchurcH, September 2". ',One of tlte'Canterbury Aviation Company's aeroplanes was destroyed fey tire.'at Sockburn Aerodrome yesterdiy. This type of accident is common enough' in the flying schools of the Old "World. A pupil who had ...gone■•■■through his training;.inieoodT and was ready to undergo the test for"his'"ticket was about to make a flight. He took-off a. little too suddenly, and the nose of the machine bumped the ground. iThafc occurrence in itself is a very ordinary one, but it so happened that on this occasion the jar which the machino suffered caused the-petrol .pipe.-to burst. The escaping petrol wob ignited by a spark i from the engine, and the flames quickly spread . to the nacelle. _ TLo pupil got- out of the machine without suffering any harm Several members oT'the company's staff promptly ran to. the burning 'plane with a fire extinguisher. They, saved the engine, hut the 'plane "itself was destroyed.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 3, 28 September 1918, Page 6
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161AEROPLANE DESTROYED BY FIRE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 3, 28 September 1918, Page 6
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