PLANE CRASH, FOUR KILLED
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(Eeceived 5, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. After a day-long search for a newspaper plane that was surveying an air route for the delivery of the "Daily Express ' ' throughout Britain, the machine was located in a field in Scot? land. The plane was eompletely destroyed by fire and four dead bodies were inside it. The plane, which left Eenfrew on February 2, for Liverpool, had four men aboard, namely, the newspaper's aero: nautical correspondent, Harold PemberT ton, a photographer, E. C. Wesley, a radio correspondent, T. H. Philpptt, acting as a wireless operator, and a pilot, Leslie Jackson. One of the searching Ait Force machines crashed in the Lanarkshire uplands and the pilot and observer were injured and sent to hospital. The machine was badly damaged.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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