TWO PLANE CRASHES
BABY’S EXPERIENCE LOADON, Oct. 25. A five-month-old baby girl was among 10 passengers in an air liner which crashed this week-end as it landed at a British airport at the end of a journey from Malta. The machine skidded when its wheels touched the grass. It shot into a ditch nose first The baby, Nicola Roper, daughter of Lieutenant-Commander Roper, R.N., was flung from her cot, but was unhurt. Her mother, strapped in her seat, also escaped. Nicola escaped earlier in the journey when a wheel strut broke as the plane was taxi-ing across the land' ing ground at Tunis. This accident delayed the passengers for two days.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 5
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