AN AEROPLANE DESTROYED.
AN ACCIDENT AT SOCKBURN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. One of the Canterbury Aviation Company's aeroplanes, was destroyed-by .fire at Sockburn aerodrome yesterday. This type of accident is common enough in the flying schools of the old world. A pupil who had gone through his training in good style, and was ready to undergo the" test for his ticket, was about to make a flight. He took .off .a little too suddenly, and the nose of the machine bumped the ground. That occurrence is a very ordinary one, but it so happened that on this occasion the jar which the machine suffered caused the petrol pipe to burst. The escaping petrol was ignited by a spark from the engine, and the flames quickly spread to the nacelle. The pupil got out of the machine without suffering any harm. Several members of the company's staff ran to the burning plane with fire extinguishers. They saved Hie engine, but the plane itself was destroyed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1918, Page 8
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166AN AEROPLANE DESTROYED. Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1918, Page 8
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