’PLANES COLLIDE
NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED. AIR FORCE TRAGEDY. CRASH INTO PIT. (United Press Association—#By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 22, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 21. Three were killed in a collision between Royal Air Force and civil aeroplanes in Hertfordshire. The civil ’plane was a training machine belonging to the Royal Air Force Reserve School at Hatfield, in which Instructor T. Smith, a New Zealander, was taking up a pupil, Mr B. W. Grieves, also a New Zealander, who arrived in England on January 17 and began flying lessons the following day. Smith had been at Hatfield for about a year.
The ’plane was flying at 200 ft near the ■•Royal Air Force ’plane when the wing tips appeared to touch and both crashed in the gravel works at St. Albans and caught fire. Workmen rushed to the rescue, but the licat was too intense.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 22 January 1938, Page 9
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144’PLANES COLLIDE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 22 January 1938, Page 9
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