TWO AIRMEN KILLED
PLANES IN COLLISION SOUTH ISLAND ACCIDENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force lost their lives and a third received serious injuries in an aircraft collision in the South Island this morning. The personnel concerned were:— Flying-Officer Kenneth Sinclair Blair, killed—Mrs. C. M. Blair, Wellington (wife). Leading - Aircraftman Leonard Matthew Keat, killed—Mrs. I. J. Keat, Rotorua (wife). Leading-Aircraftman Robert Baines Knight, seriously injured—Mr. H. Knight, Waiuku (father). Flying-Officer K. S. Blair was a son of Mr. Kenneth J. Blair, former manager pf the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company at Sydney, and was associate to Mr. Justice Blair. He graduated Bachelor of Arts at Sydney University, where he also won his rowing Blue, being a member of the Sydney eight which was victorious against the five other Australian universities in 1935.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 3
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