AIR PAGEANT DANGERS
CARELESSNESS OF CROWDS MR. WILFORD’S ANXIETY Criticism of the organisation at the aero pageant in Hastings was voiced by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in Napier. The Minister said that all the time the pageant was on ho was “scared to death.” “There was no danger to those in the air,” he said, “but I was really frightened for those on the ground.” The Minister said that people did not seem to realise that planes, when they landed, could not pull up as cars did, but had to run themselves out till they naturally stopped. Airplanes had no brakes and could not pull up till the momentum ceased. “There were boys and girls and men and women standing in the track of the landing planes,” the Minister said, “and had a plane hit them they must have been cut to pieces.” The Minister said that early in the day a plane went right through a gap where, later in the day, dozens of spectators stood. “Had they been there at the time,” he said, “the pageant would have commenced with a fatality. Clubs must realise that at future pageants people must be roped back and kept back. An injury at such a function would give the cause of aviation a bad blow.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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219AIR PAGEANT DANGERS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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