ANOTHER FATAL CRASH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 6

ANOTHER FATAL CRASH

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Young Pilot Killed Near Dunedin PRACTISING STUNTS

(By Telegraph-

DUNEDIN, Last Night. A shocking fatality occurred on the Taieri Plain shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the Otago Aero Club 'a • De Haviland Gypsy moth 'plane Z.K. — A.C.L crashed in a paddock near Wyllie's crossing, the pilot ireceiving injuries which must have caused instant death. ■ The victim of the orash was Erfol Warrington Colvin, & young member of the club, aged 22 years, who xesided iwith his parents at 60 Fort street, Duniedin. The young man took off from the . (North Taieri Aerodrome at 3.45 p.m. on |a practice flight and after circling to igain altitude flew in a westerly direcEtion towards Outram. Ten minutes after leaving the aerodrome, the majChine, which was by this time over Wyllie's crossing, about a mile and a half in a direct line from the airport, 'Was observed by an onlooker to go into {at least three consecutive • rolls from iwhich the pilot recovered «atisfa»tori!y each time. After the fourth rolL however, it did •not come back on to an even keel and appeared to side-slip, hurtling h«adlong into a paddock of oats at the rear of the residence of Stanley Crark, a farmer. From the evidence of two ey«h witnesses it appears that the pilot was practising stunts, and attempting to do a roll at too low an altitude, got into a side-slip out of which he was unahle to bring his 'plane,