FATALITY AT AUCKLAND FLYING SCHOOL.
Auckland, June 2-1. A fatality occurred at the Kohimarama Flying School on Saturday. Charles Berry McGill, a mechanic, just under nineteen years of age, was killed through being struck by the propeller of a seaplane. The instructor was turning the propeller, when he noticed the youth's shadow and stopped the engine, bur either McGill was too close or the machine moved forward, two blades of the propellor striking him. One blade struck his right shoulder and arm, and tint other cleft his 4;n 11. The youth died an hour .after admission to the hospital. His parent-* re-ide at Arkle's Bay.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1730, 26 June 1917, Page 3
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105FATALITY AT AUCKLAND FLYING SCHOOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1730, 26 June 1917, Page 3
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