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THE HASTINGS MOTH Petrol Pipe Bursts Over Tiratu SAFE LANDING IN PADDOCK.
DANNEVIRKE, This day. _ While flying to Wellington early this morning to participate in the aerial pageant, Lieutenant Allen, assistant instructor to the Hawke's Bay Aero Club, who had as passenger in a Moth 'plane, Mr N. F. Reed, of Havelock North. had to make a forced landing at Tiratu,on the outskirts of Dannevirke. The 'plane left Hastings at 6.20. a.m. and had a bumpy flight against a head wind. At about seven o'clock when over Tiratu, the petrol pipe leading to the carburettor burst, and it became urgently necessary to descend. Lieut. Allen circled round in search of a landing pffiice, and safely descended in a paddock, 12 chains in length, on Mr A. H. Pollock's farm near the Tiratu factory. When landing the 'plane just grazed the top of a belt of trees and missed a wire fence. The 'plane is being brought to Dannevirke for repairs and will probably remain here to-day.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 7
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171Narrow Escape Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 7
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