PLANE CRASHES
ON GISBORNE GOLF LIE Kb. | * . PILOT RECEIVES INJURIES, (By Telegraph — L‘er Brea* Association} GISBORNE, June 11. Members of the Poveity Bay Golf Club, playing on the. links this afternoon, bad quite a thiill when an aeroplane made a forced landing, as the 'result of whch-Pilot Simon Baring, is now in the hospital suffering with a broken nose and shock.
For months past the Gisborne members of the Hawke’k . Bay Aero Club have been negotiating to have a. machine stationed in Gisborne for instructional purpdses. The request was finally agreed to, and a Moth machine was sent up here this morning.' Several pilots had flights,- and Baring, who is licensed as a pilot, took his turn. After flying for some time, the machine it is stated, went into a spin too close to the ground. 1 The ( machine, which hud been overhauled 'just recently, struck the ground at an- angle of forty-fire degrees, and whs'.-Wery badly' damaged, the front • part 4of'.the fuselage .being smashed tt> matchwood. The pilot stepped out of. tile plane, and, after. medical attention, ■ he was removed to th hospital, . ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 5
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184PLANE CRASHES Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 5
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