N.Z. PLANE CRASHES
YOUNG AIRMAN KILLED
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association
TE AWAMUTU, May 21. A Moth plane doing . passenger flights, crashed at 4.25 o’clock this afternoon. The passenger was Alfred W. Mini-bin. He was terribly injured, lie died three hours later.
The pilot, Saunders, was thrown almost. clear of the wreckage, though he suffered severe-cuts,'but these are not sei ions.
Eiom an altitude of one thousand Net- the plane made 11 corkscrew dive to the ground, passing within a few feet of high tension power lines, ami burying its nose three feet in the ground. The engine and fuselage are a tangled mass of wreckage, beyond any hope of repair. Mi.nchin was terribly Injured, his condition being regarded as hopeless front the time that he was extracted from the debits. This flight would have completed his course of intruction qualifying him for ( sole flights.
PILOT SUCCUMBS
TE AWAMUTU, May 22
Cap. A. AY. Saunders, pilot of the plane which crashed yesterday afternoon died at 10 o’clock this morning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1930, Page 5
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168N.Z. PLANE CRASHES Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1930, Page 5
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