AIRPORT “BUZZED”
INCIDENT AT GATOW (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb, 23. An R.A.F. spokesman said to-day that a Russian jet-fighter had “buzzed”’ the'British operated Gatow airport yesterday at a height of 150 feet —the first buzzing incident since the first tense days before the Soviet blockade of Berlin, says the Associated Press Berlin correspondent. / The official said a British European Airways passenger liner was about to take-off at the time of the buzzing, and was held on the ground until the Russian fighter flew away. It was over Gatow that a low-flying Russian fighter rammed a British European Airways plane m Apm, 1948, killing 15 'persons.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 112, 24 February 1950, Page 3
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106AIRPORT “BUZZED” Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 112, 24 February 1950, Page 3
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