AIRWAYS MISHAP
PLANE STRIKES FENCE AT NEW PLYMOUTH
SOME DAMAGE TO MACHINE.
CREW AND PASSENGERS UNHURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH. July 23. Landing at New Plymouth aerodrome slightly crosswind, and skidding on the wet surface, the southbound Union Airways plane, at 9 a.m. today, failed to stop before it struck the boundary fence, along which it ran for about 100 feet, before slewing round again, to come to rest with its nose on the main highway reserve, though clear of the bitumen. None of the crew of two or of the three passengers was injured. A relief plane was run from Auckland. taking passengers and mails on to Wellington. The undercarriage and airscrew of the plane appeared to be fairly extensively damaged, but. after Union Airways engineers had made an inspection. it was announced that it would be flown to Palmerston North for overhaul in a few days. The pilot was Commander C. A. MacDonald, who had with him as copilot Mr T. R. Pike.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 4
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