AIR FATALITY
TARANAKI INQUEST VERDICT. (Par Press A siioi'iution— Copyright.) HAWERA, March 6. “The evidence is to show negligence on the part of the pilot, but his own evidence tends to show an error of judgment in banking his machine too steeply on a turn,” said the Coroner, Mr R. S. Sage, at the inquest at Opunake concerning the death of Richard Guy. Putt, who was killed at Pihaka on Jammy £9, when a W astern Federated Living Club plane, piloted by Brian Ford Davies, crashed in a paddock. The verdict was that Putt came to his death through a fall from a plane which circled over the house where Putt*was known, and was making a further circle when it nose-dived and crashed. The pilot stated he put the machine into a vertical bank for a turn at in, height of about 400 feet. He' attributed the nose-dive to having given too much rudder on the turn.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 3
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157AIR FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 3
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