LOSS OF KOTARE
OFFICIAL INQUIRY OPENS MACHINE’S TAKE-OFF. CLUB HANGAR JUST AVOIDED. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, This Day. The official inquiry into the crash of the Lockheed air liner Kotare at Mangere on May 10, causing the deaths of Commander C. M. Duthie and Se-cond-Officer W. J. Peel, commenced in the Magistrate's Court building today. Mr W. F. Stillwell, S.M., presided and with nim were Squadron-Leader Burrell and Flight-Lieutenant Allan. The first witness, Haddon George Smith, accountant, New Plymouth, said he visited Mangere on May 10 to see the Kotare depart. “The machine had just got into the air,” he said, “when it .slewed to the right and was heading straight for the Auckland Aero Club’s hangar. I thought it would just hit the hangar. I saw the plane climb very steeply over the hangar. It was a wonderful climb to me and the righthand starboard propeller was not working.” He said that when the machine came in view again it was making a sweeping circle to the right. The plane had at first wobbled but then became steady. The onlookers were all concerned. Witness thought a forced landing was to be made in a field. The machine nosed down, disappeared and there was a rending crash.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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207LOSS OF KOTARE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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