FLYER CRASHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 1

FLYER CRASHES

MR. MASE BADLY HURT DIFFICULT RESCUE MADE HAD PLANNED N.Z. FLIGHT (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. IX a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The New Zealander, Mr. H. F. j Mase, was badly injured when his machine was wrecked in a crash near! Bury St. Edmunds. Five rescuers were needed to extri- j cate him from the wreckage. The j tank hurst, but the machine did not j ignite.

The crash was due to engine trouble. The airman is stated to be suffering from bruises and concussion. Mr. Mase was going to fly from England to New Zealand.

Mr. Masc’s intention was to start from Southampton and follow Bert l-linkler’s route to Australia. Vienna, Constantinople, Baghdad. Basra, Bushire, Birdar Abbas, Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta, Akyab Rangoon, Victoria Point, Penang, Singapore, Batavia, Sourabaya, Kupang, Port Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Invercargill were to be the calls after England had been left. Mr. Mase’s flying experience covered over 800 hours in 40 different types of machines. He was for some time test pilot to the Aircraft Inspection Department and was later attached to the Royal Air Forc° in France. Mr. Mase was a member of #le Auckland Aero Club and his planned flight was backed by an Auckland Company, Aviation, Ltd. Mr. Mase went Home in December to secure the Sim-monds-Spartan agency and to fly out to New Zealand in a machine of that type. The maximum speed of a Spartan is about 305 miles an hour. Mr. Mase was to take over the plane for the flight officially on Wednesday this week and the flight was to begin on March IS. The flight has been subsidised by an oil company which has laid down oil supplies at points along the mute.