MISHAP AT MIRAMAE
OCCUPANTS ESCAPE
While turning to make a landing on the Rongotai, Aerodrome yesterday morning, the Marlborough Aero Club'a Gypsy Moth ZK-AAJ crashed on the Miramar golf links, and was completely wrecked. The pilot, Dr. N. F. Boag, and his passenger, Mr. T. L. R. King, both members of tho club, escaped serious injury, although Mr. King was admitted to the Bowen Street Hospital Buffering from shock and bruises. His condition to-day was reported to have improved. The only injury suffered by Dr. Boag was a strained ankle, caused while he was helping Mr. King out of the wreckage. ' .'. :
The machine, which was on loan from tho Government, and the only one the Marlborough Club, had at its disposal, left Blenheim at 7 a.m., and arrived over Rongotai at about 7.40 a.m. In coming down to make a landing the pilot made a series of S-turns, but the machine lost flying speed, commenced to spin, and crashed. It struck a small knoll'in front of the sixteenth green and came to rest upside down.
With the exception of the engine, the machine was ■ damaged almost beyond repair. Tho propeller was broken, tho wings torn off, and the undercarriage wrecked.
Dr. Boag returned to Blenheim this morning in a Wellington Aoro Club machine piloted by Squadron-Leader G. L. Stedman. ■ ...'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 8
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