DAMAGES CLAIM
A ERiOP LANE FATA LITY. By Telegraph—Per Press-Association j WAIROA, September 16. When the Court resumed this morning His ;Honouf""aSked' Mr Bolt—ls it your' opinion, basedpon fthe. evidence that the aecidentUwas ■ due to turning at too slow a sliced and at too low ail altitude. Witness—Yes Sir, I believe that is so. His Honour said it probably would interest the public to know whether this sort of accident was possible without negligence on the part of the pilot.
Witness said it was possible, but they u ere an unusual sort. Accidents occur due to a machine being at too low an altitude, or in some awkward | position-.? that it i,s difficult to get out 1 of. [ To further questions, witness said the stoppage of an aeroplane engine was never-due to faulty driving. He indicated that an aeroplane engine did not stall in the sense that a momrcar engine did; The stalling of an aeroplane did not apply to the engine at all. The stalling of a ’plane meant the ’plane losing-speed. The-aeroplane did not stop unless it was switched off on account of some mechanical defect.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1931, Page 6
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188DAMAGES CLAIM Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1931, Page 6
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