AIR MINISTER’S ESCAPE
PLANE FORCED DOWN COMPANIONS SHAKEN (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 29, noon.) LONDON. July 28. A Royal Air Force plane in which the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, was flying to Belfast turned back when over .the Irish Sea oh account of bad weather. It was not reported for seme lime. Then it was explained that Mho plane made a forced landing at Kirkby, Lancashire, on a hillside.
Si.- Kingsley Wood was not hurt, but Air Marshal Sholto Douglas, Sir Christopher Courtney and Sir -Edward Campbell. M.P., were .shaken.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 6
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94AIR MINISTER’S ESCAPE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 6
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