Holiday in Hospital
Young Gisborne Man ’$ Disastrous Flight PLANE CRASH IN N.S.W. "I thought it was the end of everything.” That is all Mr. Walter Gaddum. a young Gisborne man. remembers about an airplane crash in which he nearly lost his life. Mr.' Gaddum, who is only 23 years of age, went to New South Wales on holiday. While there he went for a pleasure flight in a machine which was piloted by John Rutledge. Something went wrong with the plane when they were I.oooft up. "I don’t know what happened, but the earth suddenly began to spin up to meet us,’” said Mr. Gaddum on the Ulimaroa. this morning. “When, we crashed the engine was driven right into the ground.” Mr. Gaddum still bears the scars of his unlucky flight- He is walking on crutches and his face shows evidence of having been badly cut. His right thigh bone was badly broken, but it is mending again after several weeks in hospital. Mr. Gaddum was accompanied by his sister. Miss Ann Gaddum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 13
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