PLANE TRAGEDY
A FATAL CRASH. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 22. An aeroplane fatality occurred at Maugcro to-night when a moth machine, owned by tire Auckland Aero Club crashed from a. height of 2300 feet •and burst into flames.- The pilot, Cyril Olsen, aged 23, single, who lived at Royal Oak, was killed. Hundreds of horror-stricken spectators witnessed the tragedy and rushed to the field in which the aeroplane crashed, but the pilot was then dead, and the intense heat of the burning wings and fuselage in-evented those who hastened to the scene from getting closer than 20 feet from, the burning inferno.
Several experienced pilots stated tonight that they thought the pilot fainted in mid air. This view is borne out by the fact that the engine was running right full out when the lunching struck the ground. Before the fatal flight the machine was tested, and found to be in good order.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1930, Page 5
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