FIVE R.A.F. MEN KILLED
WEEKEND ACCIDENTS
BOMBER'S FATE IN M!ST
(Received June 7, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Five members of the Royal Air Force were killed at the weekend. A bomber which had been missing since Friday in misty weather was found in Westmoreland, where it had crashed. There were two bodies in the machine, which had struck the face of a precipice and dropped 50ft to a huge boulder, which prevented it rolling hundreds of feet down the mountainside.
Another bomber crashed and took flre in fog at Auchtengallie, Saotland, the two occupants being incinerated.
A third plane went into a spin and struck a tree in Berkshire. Sergeant John Roe, of the Royal Air Force Training School, was killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 9
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