CAUGHT IN PROPELLER
ORCHARDIST KILLED MOTH CRASHES IN N.S. W. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Monday. Tragedy attended the forced landing of a Moth airplane to-day on a farm at Windsor, 34 miles north-west of Sydney. The machine, which was owned by the Government, struck down and killed Mr. Alfred Smith, a well known orchardist, while lie was hoeing weeds. Ha sustained terrible injuries from the swiftly revolving propeller. The plane burst into flame. The pilot, Robert Somerville, and the mechanic, Leslie Milgate, were rescued by Mr. Smith’s son, who had witnessed the accident to his father. The pilot, happened to be a friend of the Smith family, and he was so that he had to be sent to hospital.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 9
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121CAUGHT IN PROPELLER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 9
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