Both of the upper aircraft's engines had been knocked out in the collision but those of the one below continued to turn at full power. The pilot of the lower Anson was injured and bailed out, but the pilot of the upper Anson, Leonard Graham Fuller, found that he was able to control the piggybacking pair of aircraft with his ailerons and flaps. He managed to travel 8 kilometres (5 mi) after the collision before making a successful emergency belly landing in a large paddock 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia.