PLANE CRASHES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1933, Page 5

PLANE CRASHES

PUPIL KILLED

HAMILTON FATALITY YESTERDAY

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AUCKLAND, April 2

An aviation fatality occurred at ■Hamilton toalay, the victim being Raymond Erie Land, aged 19 years, 'lie wae a flying pupil, and was piloting a Blackburn-Bluebird biplane, when it crashed -near the Teiapa aerodrome this morning. The plane was wrecked.

|Land, who wa s the only occupant, was extricated with a broken leg and cuts to the face. He was removed to the hospital, where he died in the afternoon.

Land had done a fair amount of golo flying. He had made two successful snort flights to-day, and he wa s up for th e third time. It was when he wars banking that the accident ‘.happened. The engine stalled at a height of one hundred .feet. Th e aeroplane nosed-dived, and fell into a narrow gully, at tlie bottom of which there is a swamp. The right wing struck a tree, which brok e the -fall of the machine, while the swamp acted as a cushion. The engine and propeller of thoi machine were embedded in the mud. The weather was . fine, and jthere jwas practically no wind, Tlho deceased was a eon of Mr E. G, Land, of Hamilton, and he wa s employed* by the “vVaikato Times,”

EVEREST FLIGHT DELAYED,

CALCUTTA, April 1

Unusually disturbed weather continues to delay the Mount Everest flights. It may be many weeks before there is an actual attempt, as a series of test flights will precede it in order to collect eggential data.

CANADIAN CRASH SURVIVORS

NEW YORK, April 1

The eight survivors of the Neodisha plane crash op Friday will live, barring complications.