CRASH AT PAGEANT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 389, 22 March 1937, Page 6

CRASH AT PAGEANT

Airmail's Skull Fractured.

! t*ress Association—-jopyright. Gi-■‘yniouth, March 21. I When making his last landing in the senioi landing competition - <?.t thej ! South Island air pageant at Hokitika this afternoon, a pilot, Mr B rank ! Sham. , of Christchurch, a competi- • tor fro.: the Canterbury Aero Club, Im- T'ith a mishap involving him in .serion- injury and extensive (Tam-age

to the Canterbury Aero Club’s D H. Gipsy Moth pi.me ZK—AAI. I Mr Sharman appeared to be makg e good landing, but when about 50 ; f eot froiu the ground went into a spin ■ off a si ding turn, the machine crash- | iu£ on ii left wing. The undeTcar- ! iia t hie the ground with consider- ! able force and the propeller blades ■snapped oil. The plane narrowly miSE*ied Royal Air Force machine which I as about to take off. • Mr Sharman’s head evidently came . io .violent contact with the cowling in the ‘ out of the pilot’s seat and Le sustained a compressed of the skull.