P.A.T.’s Moth Wrecked
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WAU, Sept. 11.
A BIRD flying against the propellor was responsible for Pacific Aerial Trans port Company’s No. 3 Gipsy Moth crash ing between Sunshine and Roamer aero dromes, New Guinea, on September 5.
The machine, piloted by Mr. William Grey, was freighting supplies.
With a shattered propellor, Pilot Grey skilfully brought the plane down into trees. He escaped injury, although the machine was wrecked. Mr. Grey walked several miles to Sunshine ’drome, where another aeroplane took him back to Wau.