AIR TRAGEDIES
TWO FATAL SMASHES
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.)
LONDON. Nov. 7
The bodies of Pilot Officer Charles Myers and Air Craftsman Chadwick, who have been missing since yesterday
morning, were discovered under a wrecked plane almost buried in the VfcojT on a desolate ridge in Yorkshire Moors. Myers aged twenty, completed his flying education a month ago, and had only fourteen hours actual
Hviug experience. He set out fron
Lntterick Aerodrome to carry out photographic training and should have been absent an hour at the most.
'When he failed to return, aeroplanes
searched and scoured the Moors, cou\tinuing with torches and searchlights *all night.
A third Air Force death occurred at the flying school in Lincolnshire, when Pilot Officer Richard Coupe crashed in a field.
Another aeroplane landing to render assistance struck a hedge and overturned. The'two occupants were unhurt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1928, Page 5
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