AEROPLANE TRAGEDY
■ ORCHARD IST THE VICTIM. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, Jan. 21. Making a forced landing in farm lands at. Windsor, near Riel)niond today, a Moth aeroplane, owned by the Government, struck down, and killed Alfred Smith, a well-known orchardist. while he was hoeing weeds. Smith v as , almost decapitated, and lie also suffered'*" terrible .laxly and leg injuries. The propeller must have caused them. The pilot, Robert Somerville, and tlx?' mechanic,.-Res -M,ilgate. were rescued'lf mm tile' burning -aeroplane by Smith’s son, who witnessed his father’s accident. .. _ . Pilot Somerville," wlu> happened to • be-ir friend of the family was so overcome)/:byhthe, 1 t'qwlii*- • .oeciirreuce., - that he was sent U> the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 6
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110AEROPLANE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 6
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