Hovercraft experts are assisting police, amid calls for regulation of the hobby to build and run the crafts. It was the first time Mr Senior had driven the hovercraft, which he had made from a kitset. Sergeant Colin Nuttall said there had been a "collapse in the structure'' when the accident happened about midday on Sunday, with his partner and a next-door neighbour looking on.
An engineer is now examining to determine what exactly went wrong. "He took it up there for a test-run. It was the first time he'd tried to drive it, but I'm not sure if it was the first time he'd started it up," said Sgt Nuttall. "His partner and neighbour were there at the time, they saw it." Police said anyone could build or fly a hovercraft in New Zealand without a licence.
A former member of the Hovercraft Club of New Zealand, Ashley Shaw, said the craft were generally safe. "To make them, it's a piece of cake. I designed my own," he said. "Hovercraft are inherently very, very safe and simple devices. They are quite stable."
2 comments:
Is "senior" now a common last name in English? Last I checked, it was just to distinguish father from son - so this means the unfortunate Dr. Alastair Kenneth has a son called "Alastair Kenneth Junior".
Otherwise we'd all be calling Bill Gates "Mr. III", hehe...
Is "Kenneth" now a common last name in English?
Also, it doesn't actually have to be a common last name, one person would be enough.
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