AIR FORCE PLANE
HIGH OFFICIALS ON BOARD
(Received July 29, noon.)
LONDON, July 28. / A Royal Air Force plane in Which the Secretary of Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, was flying to Belfast, turned back over the Irish Sea owing to bad weather. It was not reported for some time, but later it was reported that it had made a forced landing at Kirkby, Lancashire, on a hillside.
The Air Minister and Air-Marshal Sholto Douglas, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney, and Commander Sir Edward Campbell were shaken. The pilot and two of the crew were injured and taken to hospital.
It was announced recently that the Secretary for Air, accompanied by senior officers of the Royal Air Force, v would pay a visit of inspection to the reserve units of the R.A.F. in Northern Ireland on July 28 and 29. Sir Kingsley Wood was to be the guest of Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Viscountess Craigavon, and it was intended that he should discuss the question of recruiting for the reserve and auxiliary units of the R.A.F. in Northern Ireland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 9
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182AIR FORCE PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 9
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