PLANES COLLIDE
ACCIDENT AFTER LANDING ONE PILOT INJURED MACHINE HEAVILY DAMAGED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday Injuries were suffered by a pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force this morning when two planes collided while taxiing at No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School, Bell Block, six miles from New Plymouth. The injured man is LeadingAircraftsman G. W. De Vere, of Auckland. The two machines, Gipsy Moth training planes, had just landed after training flights and were taxiing along the field when the collision occurred. Leading-Aircraftsman De Vere’s companion in his plane was unhurt and so was the sole occupant of the other plane. One machine was damaged extensively and the other not so heavily. Leading-Aircraftsman De Vere was taken by ambulance to hospital. He arrived at the Bell Block station from Weraroa on August 24.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 4
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137PLANES COLLIDE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 4
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