CRASH INTO GULLY
PLANE LOSES PROPELLER IN MID-AIR. AIRMAN INJURED AT NEW PLYMOUTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. When its propeller fell off in mid-air, a Royal New Zealand Air Force Tiger Moth, from the No. 2 Elementary Training Scool at Bell Block, crashed into a gully on a farm on the outskirts of New Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Leading-Aircraftsman Dean F. Bullen, aged 23 years, the sole occupant, had his spine fractured, but his condition is not critical. The machine, which had been flying for only ten days, landed at an angle on a hillside, the engine digging a shallow trench, and forced, the hack part into the observer’s cockpit by the impact. The engine was damaged, all four wings were badly broken, and it is considered that the aeroplane must be written off as a loss.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1940, Page 4
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