A FORCED LANDING
EN ROUTE TO AIR PAGEANT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association).
DANNEVLRKE, Nov. 15.
While flying to "Wellington early this morning to participate in the aerial pageant, Lieut. Allan (assistant instructor to the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club) who had as a passenger in a Moth ’plane, N. Freed, of Havelock North, hud to make a forced landing at T'ipapakuku, on the outskirts of Dunnevirke.
The ’plane left Hastings at 0.23 and had .a bumpy flight against a head wind. About seven o’clock when over Tiratu the petrol pipe leading to the carburettor burst and it became urgently necessary to descend. Allan circled round in search of a landing and safely descended in a paddock twelve chains in length on A. A. Wollock’s farm near the Tipapakuku factory. When, landing the ’plane just grazed the top of a belt of trees and missed a wire fence. The ’plane is being brought to Dannovirke for repairs and probably will remain here to-dav.
D VNNEVIRKE, Nov. 15. Allen’s ’plane landed at Tiratu, not Tipapakuku.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1929, Page 5
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