’PLANE CRASH
N. ZEALANDER KILLED AT HOME (Received this day at 11.30 a.in.) (United .Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 29. Flying-Officer Ronald Rowley M.uiphy, aged twenty-two, of Ta> Ivomaiu, Ne w Zealand, was killed at Shen field owing to a crash in a solo flight in a Bulldog aeroplane during manoeuvres from Hornchurch aerodrome. Fc-fcy minutes after starting the machine -unaccountably nosedived into earth iu '• potato field, the explosion catapulting Murphy and ttr engine three hundred yards into the no: t field The body was unrecognisable. The was a tangled and twisted mass ol metal containing Murphy’s helmet and boots.
An eye-witness said Murphy’s and another machine were flying together when Murphy’s engine -began “soitj and it swooped and crashed. The other pilot owing to low visibility was a pip:, it ntly urywnre of r.f vim disaster, sad flew hack Lo tiie aorn- | drome.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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144’PLANE CRASH Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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