AIR FORCE CRASH
NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED
(Received loth October, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 14th October.
The inquest has opened on the deaths of the two New Zealanders, FlightLieutenant Harold Claude Marett (ag» 28) and Acting Pilot-Officer Adrian Kinross-White (age 19); -who were kill-* ed instantly when their aeroplane; crashed at Grantham on Wednesday! In evidence it was stated that Marett had had 1750 hours' flying experience. He took up a; pupil, Kinross-White, with 51 hours' flying experience, -;<or-' a flight. The machine looped, and th«n inexplicably side-slipped, spinning, iiito a nose-dive. Marett jumped when the machine was a hundred feet from the ground, but Kinross: White was found strapped to the wreckage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 14
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111AIR FORCE CRASH Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 14
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