AIRPLANE FATALITY
MACHINE CRASHES ON LANDING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. HOME, May 18. Ten British airplanes have arrived, en route to Egypt. ' Nine landed safely, but the tenth crashed, pinning its five occupants underneath it. * ONE MAN KILLED. LONDON. May 18. The correct story of the Home disaster i» that two Handley Page machines flew from Marseilles. The first landed successfully at the Centocolle aerodrome, but the second, in endeavouring to avoid the first, struck a big tree and crashed into a deep trench. Lieutenant Prince Spratt was killed, Colonel Lawrence broke an arm, and a mechanic was slightly wounded.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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101AIRPLANE FATALITY New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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