Post by Dave Homewood on May 31, 2010 18:39:20 GMT 12
The former Union Airways airliner de Havilland DH86 Express "Korimako" was impressed into RNZAF service on the 25th of October 1939, serving with the Air Gunners and Air Observers School at Ohakea. When that school was disanded the aircraft transferred to No. 3 Service Flying Training School on the same station, on the 28th of October 1940.
But after just over two weeks with that school it came to grief, on the 13th of November 1940. The aircraft failed to get airborne, careered through a fence and hit a line of trees apparently. There are no trees in this shot but it certainly looks like it has been through a fence.
I got this print on Trademe a while back at the same time as the Harvard through a house shot on the Harvard Pile thread. This is just a digital still of the print, not a scan, but it shows a sad site. Poor old Korimako did not get rebuilt.
But after just over two weeks with that school it came to grief, on the 13th of November 1940. The aircraft failed to get airborne, careered through a fence and hit a line of trees apparently. There are no trees in this shot but it certainly looks like it has been through a fence.
I got this print on Trademe a while back at the same time as the Harvard through a house shot on the Harvard Pile thread. This is just a digital still of the print, not a scan, but it shows a sad site. Poor old Korimako did not get rebuilt.
