AUCKLAND FLYER CRASHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 1

AUCKLAND FLYER CRASHES

MASE’S PLANE WRECKED IN FRANCE EARLY MISHAP ENDS RIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND (United I*.A. — By Telegraph—Copyright > (United Service) Received Noon. LONDON, Frida}’. WITH his machine wrecked in trying to rise after a forced landing, Mr. H. F. Mase, the Auckland airman who set out this morning from Kent on his projected flight to New Zealand, is at Roanne in central France.

T>OANNE is the capital of an arrondissement in the Department of Loire, 40 miles north-west of Lyons. Mr. Mase set out from the Lympne Airdrome at 6.15 a.m., in his SimmondsSpartan biplane, named the All Black. Fine weather prevailed when he took off. Mr. Mase wired to London from Roanne: —* “Regret I had to make a forced landing here. Getting off again, the engine cut out. The plane hit a fence and trees, and turned completely over.” The machine was wrecked. Mr. Mase’s face was cut. but his hurts are not serious. The airman was backed by a syndicate of ten Auckland business men, registered in New Zealand as Aviation, Limited. He left New Zealand for England in December to arrange for the flight. His proposed route touched the following place: Malta, Benghazi, Cairo, Amman, Bagdad, Basra, Bushire, Jask, Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta. Akyab, Rangoon, Victoria Point, Batavia, Sourabaya, Bima, Dilli, Port Darwin,

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