PILOT HURLED TO DEATH IN AMAZING AIR ACCIDENT
> (Received 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 3, An amazing aviation. miShap oc- > curred at ' Romfokd. A 23 -year J1 1 aviator-chemist, Douglas Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into * spin. He f ailed to flatten out and continued flying upside down. Gee was hurled to death on the railway line, while Oscroft was suspehded in the air by the strap of his seah. He managed to get his legs around the control stlck and the machine miraculously righted, Oscroft makt ing a safe landing.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 7
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96PILOT HURLED TO DEATH IN AMAZING AIR ACCIDENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 7
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