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PLANE'S ENGINE FAILS.
Lucky Escapes in Crash.
SYDNEY, April 25.-When a Genarceo
three-seater biplane crashed in a vacant
allotment near the Kingsford Smith aero
drome, Mascot, this afternoon, the pilot,
J. Clifford Carpenter, and three pas
sengems had remarkable escapes from seri
ous injury. Albert Ernest Adams,. of
Ferngrove-road, Canley Vale, who was
one of the passengers, suffered injuries
to his nose and right ankle. Michael
Simms (10), of Wlngeuo-street, Guildford,
was uninjured, but his sister, Ursula (7),
suffered a fractured left arm.
Eye-witnesses state that the engine of
the plane seemed to cut out shortly after
the take-off and then the plane banked
to the left. The pilot attempted to make
a pancake landing and narrowly missed
a workshop and telephone wires. The
plane ended on its nose in a clump of
lantana bushes within 50 feet of a house,
the forepart of the machine being badly
damaged. The propeller was shattered
and the fuselage was cracked in two just
outside the pilot's cockpit.
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