AIR FORCE FATALITY
INTREPID OFFICER'S DEATH
FIGHTING ’PLANE CRASHES
LONDON, August 20. Pilot-officer Harold Kelly was flying a Woodcock fighter at a height of 400 ft at Upavon, Wiltshire, when the machine tilted, spun around three times, and crashed with terrific force. Three journalists who were motoring through Upavon rushed to his assistance and extricated the body of tho officer with wire-cutters and axes. A doctor administered strychnine, but Kelly died soon after ho reached tho hospital. Kelly broke a leg and both arms while flying in 1925, but ho intrepidly continued his exercises in order to pass the officers’ examination. This is the fifth death that has occurred at the Upavon Aerodrome. In tho past three weeks there have been two motor car and throe flying accidents.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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128AIR FORCE FATALITY Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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