IN THE AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1931, Page 5

IN THE AIR

CRASH AT ROTORUA.

PLANE TOTALLY WRECKED. {By Telegraph—ter tress Association) ROTORUA, September 14. Trapped in an air pocket as he was taking off in a three-seater monoplane .rom Rotorua, drome this afternoon, Captain R. R. Money, of Hamilton, who had with him as passengers, Messrs J. Fortune and W. G. Seta-hell of Rotorua, crashed into a garden of a house opposite the drome.- The plane had a slow take off, and struck the pocket just it cleared the telegraph wires on the roau beside the drome. Fortunately it was only 40 feet up when it struck the pocket and

none of the occupants was injured. The plane, which was a privately owned one, was totally wrecked.

ANOTHER CRASH

AT TAIERI ’DROME

DUNEDIN, September 14

While landing in one of the Club’s Motli planes at North Taieri to-clay, A. R. Burbridge, Ground Engineer to the Otago Aero Club, struck one of the telegraph wires on tile road, bounding the western side of the landing ground and crashed.

Burbridge suffered slight abrasions to the head, and some damage was done to the wing of the plane, the fabric of which was tom and the ij’auie* work slightly smashed.

FRENCHMAN’S SMASH.

DUE TO ENGINE EXPLODING.

•MOSCOW, September 14

Doret, the survivor of the French plane, “Hyphen,” says that the engine exploded in mid-air, and his two colleagues probably were dead before they liifc the ground.