TWO CRASHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1941, Page 4

TWO CRASHES

AIR FORCE TRAINING PLANES. REMARKABLE ESCAPES FROM INJURY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 29. Three members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force had remarkable escapes from injury when two training aeroplanes crashed on Mount Grey, North Canterbury, one about 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning and the other soon after 9 a.m. today. The first aeroplane, which crashed into the hillside in fog, was flown by Leading Aircraftman Arthur Frederick Tucker, and the second, which came down in the same vicinity, was piloted by Pilot Officer Henry Arthur Saye Telford, with Leading Aircraftman George Wilson as pupil. Both machines were fairly badly damaged and the nature of the country in which they crashed will make salvage work difficult. A party from the Air Force, accompanied by Mr Bruce Banfield, Rangiora, searched throughout Tuesday night for the pilot of the first aeroplane, and found him about 5.30 a.m. today with a slight cut his only injury. After news of the seqond crash was received another party was organised in Rangiora today under Constable J. P. Simmonds, but both members of the crew were found safe and well in the Broomfield district, having made their way down the hill to the nearest homestead.