CRASH INTO HANGAR
airplane damaged at mangere PUPIL HAS ACCIDENT A Moth airplane belonging to the Auckland Aero Club was extensively damaged yesterday morning through crashing into the hangar at Mangere airdrome. The pilot, Mr. E. B. Waters, a pupil who made his first solo flight early this week, escaped injury. Mr. Waters was making practice landings and overshot the landingcircle. Instead of turning his machine to the right into the wind, which would have enabled him either to stop or to take off again immediately, he attempted to get away along the line of his landing. This brought him too closo to the club’s buildings and the tip of his left wing caught a corner of the hangar. The plane had nearly gained flying speed, and the force of the impact swung the machine halfway round so that it crashed into the sido of the building, shattering a window and buckling the iron covering. Damage to the airplane was also extensive. The propeller was broken off short at the spinner, both lower wing planes crumpled, and the fuselage strained. Mr. Waters took to the air in another machine, first under the guidance of the club's instructor. Lieutenant 33. M. Allen, and then solo.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 5
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204CRASH INTO HANGAR Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 5
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