FIVE CRASHES
Alii I'OKCE MACHINES EIGHT PERSONS KILLED DISAPPEARANCE AT SEA PARACHUTE SA VES BOY
LONDON, July 21. When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propeller of another machine near the Wittering Koyal Air Force station, Sergeant-Pilot J. A. Hullard pushed a schoolboy passenger into space and shouted: “Don’t get scared. Count live and pull the rip-cord.” The hoy’s parachute - opened and floated him safely to the-ground. Sergeant-Pilot Hullard then tried to use his own parachute, but was unablet to climb out ( of the wildly spinning plane until he was too near the ground, and he was killed', instantly. Two Royal Air Force planes collided in mid-air near Deal, three , persons being killed. A Royal Air Force bomber crashed near Driffield, three persons being killed in this accident also. Another bomber with a crew of two plunged into the sea eight miles se nth of .Bridlington and it- is feared that the crew- were killed. An eye-witness said that tho plane, after dropping a bomb, hit- the water and vanished in- a cloud of smoke.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 211, 24 July 1939, Page 3
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179FIVE CRASHES Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 211, 24 July 1939, Page 3
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