AVIATION
5 PLANE CRASHES. LUCKY ESCAPES. [United Press Association.—Py Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received 10.2-5 a.m.) LONDON, February 2. Luck and skill combined, averted n disaster when an Avro biplane piloted by Richard Bush, accompanied by Stanley Rodwell, hurtled down and was forced to land in a garden ot twenty by thirty feet- in Gresham Road, the busiest portion of Buxton, narrowly missing a house. Bush was seriously injured and Rodwell slightly. piie plane was one of three taking flying shots for Elstree picture. Reginald Freeman, the occupant of the. house, was working when an extraordinary rattle caused his wife to rush to the hack door, where she saw the machine swoop past a tree in the garden, smash down the garden wall and plunge into the. next door lawn and imbed its nose in the ground, after narrowly missing herself. Rodwell crawled from the wreckage and extricated Bush from crumbled wreckage. Both were taken to the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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