STINSON DISASTER
Down Current Caused Plane Crash (Received 13, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 12. The Air Accidents Investigation Committee has presented a report on fche Stinsou air disaster. It expresses the opinion that the pilot, while attempting to fly over the MacPherson range close to the summit, encouutered a down current of the air in excess of the maximum climbing i rate of his aircraft and of such strength that the plane collided with fche treetops before he could mauoeuvre kway from danger. The wind force at the scene at the time of the accident was in the vxcinity of 60 miles au hour. The committee heard evidence of tie severity of up and down currents on the lee side of the mountain ridge where the accident occurred, but was unable to determine whether there was any mechauical defect in the engine owing to the fact that it was destroyed ' by fire.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 5
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