GLIDER CRASHES
AUCKLAND PILOT INJURED
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AUCKLAND, November 13.
When attempting t 0 establish a long distance gliding record at Memvai Bdach this morning, the' well known .Auckland glider pilot, H. G. Pointer., a railway employee, of Otahuhu, crashed on the sandhills, and received a fractured leg and cuts to the face. The machine, a sail-plane, of improved design, was badly smashed. With other members of the club, Pointon Wad been- continuing regular week-end trials on the extensive sand dunes. A strong, but gusty wind was blowing, and afteT .several goods flights, Pointon was caught by a (side gust when at a height of 60 feet, land sideclipped. .He was taken on an improvised stretcher a distance of over nine mile s to a 'boarding house, whence he w>as moved by ambulance to Auckland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 2
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