CRASH AT AKAROA
INQUEST ON VICTIMS EVIDENCE OF EYEWITNESS. TURN ATTEMPTED AT LOW SPEED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. “The aeroplane seemed to be heading for the sea, but when possibly two hundred yards from the water, I think the pilot must have changed his mind. His speed at the time was much too slow to permit him to turn, but the pilot did make a left-hand turn which threw him into a very steep bank. From there onwards, the aeroplane lost its grip of the air, side-slipping rapidly, and travelled about 300 yards before nose-diving to the ground.”—That description of the manoeuvres of an Air Force aeroplane which crashed in Akaroa on the morning of June 15 was given by William Anthony White at the resumed inquest at Akaroa this morning into the deaths of LeadingAircraftsmen Francis Maurice McFarlane and John Lindsay McFadyen. The evidence of Akaroa witnesses was taken by the Coroner (Mr E. C. Levvey) this morning and the inquest will be completed in Christchurch in about a fortnight’s time, when the evidence of Air Force officers will be taken. ♦
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 6
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