PANCAKE CRASH
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Civil Reserve Pilot's Mishap MACHINE OVERTURNS
(By Telegraph-
BLENHEIM, Last Night. One of the Marlborough Aero Club's machines, a Moth — ZKAEM — was extensively damaged at 3.40 o'clock this afternoon when it figured in a pancake landing on the Blenheim aerodrome. Minor injuries were sustained by the sole occupant, John Patrick Scott Stocker, aged 24, civil reserve trainee, son of Mr G. K. I. Stocker, dentist, of Blenheim. Mr Stocker was making his first solo flight. Coming into an otherwise perfect approach to land in the middle of tho aerodrome, he fiattened out about 10 feet above the ground and pancalced, the machine turning on its back. Help was immediatly at hand, and the pilot was quickly extricated. The only effects were cuts on the face, bruises, and slight shoclt. Mr Stocker was admitted to hospital for treatment and observation. The principal damage to the machine is a broken back near the forward cocltpit. As none of the club's other three planes is at present available for training, considerable activity in this direction will be suspended in the meantime.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 71, 16 December 1937, Page 5
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