PLANE MISHAP
CONDITION OF. AIRMEN IMPROVING. MACHINE TO BE SALVAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, May 6. The condition of Messrs A. W. Britton and S. J. Murphy, pilot and observer of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club’s Tiger Moth aeroplane which crashed in the Pakuratahi Valley on Wednesday, when dropping supplies of food to settlers, was reported today to be improving. Mr Britton, who received severe facial lacerations and spinal injuries, was a little better than when he was admitted. Mr Murphy, whose left wrist and two ribs were fractured, and who suffered a sprained ankle and a wound on the forehead, was reported to be progressing favourably. The Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club’s ground engineer, Mr A. Bowyer, Leading Aircraftman Hogg, and Aircraftsman Jamieson of the New Zealand Air Force base at Hobsonville, left for the Pakuratahi Valley at daylight this morning to begin salvage work on the aeroplane.
Because of the nature of the country, it will be impossible to fly the machine out of the valley, even if it can be completely repaired on the spot. Their intention is to make what repairs they can and put the machine under cover until the roads are sufficiently restored to enable it to be removed by lorry.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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212PLANE MISHAP Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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