AIRMAN DIVES UNDER PLANE PROPELLOR
ILONDON Diving under the propellors of a runaway aeroplane at Croydon air^ort, an airman tried to chock the wkeels and prevent it crashing into a girder. At the same time one of the crew and a passenger leaped out of the aircraft and attempted to swing it •ound by the wing-tips. The machine hit the corner of a bangar, buckling the nose and damiging an engine. After the aeroplane, a twin enginid Avro Anson, had touched down he brakes failed, and the pilot, Cap;ain John Hankins, was unable to bait it. Leading-Aircraftman Harry Goslen, of Weybridge, Surrey, saw that ;he plane was heading for an iron virder. He picked up a wooden chock md dived nnder the piopellor's. "I was scared stiff. I just wasn't ible to get the chock in front of the vheels," he said afterwards.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 2
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143AIRMAN DIVES UNDER PLANE PROPELLOR Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 2
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