Small Plane Crashed In
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New Guinea
Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, March 16.
A PLANE accident, fortunately at tended by no serious results, occur red on Friday, March 15, when Pilot Brian Carpenter was flying a Man dated Airlines’ Fox Moth to Sunshine.
The morning mist, usual at this time of year, had not lifted, and Pilot Carpen-
ter, who had a native passenger in the forward cock-pit, struck the top of a kunai hill near Golden Ridges and came to grief.
The pilot was only slightly injured, and was able to proceed to Wau. The native passenger received somewhat more serious injuries, with probably a broken leg, but is quite likely to recover.
As far as is known at present, the plane is salvable.
Mandated Airlines’ Fox Moth “on its nose”, near Golden Ridges, Wau.