PLANE CRASH IN VICTORIA
Two Men Incinerated (Received May G, 1.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE. May 5. Two men were incinerated when a plane carrying an instructor and a pupil failed to come out of a spin and crashed and burst into flames at Campbell Field. 15 miles from Melbourne today. The victims were Clarence Cook, aged 25, instructor, and his pupil, Charles Hake, aged 38, soliictor. Albury. Mr. Hake was being given instruction in aerobatics. At 250 feet a spin began at. an insufficient height for correction before the crash. Motorists who rushed to tlie scene were driven .back by intense heat.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 10
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101PLANE CRASH IN VICTORIA Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 10
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