PLANE FOUND AFTER EXPLOSION
Two Airmen Dead
WELLINGTON, October 25.
Due to return to an Air Force station in the South Island at 11 a.m. on Saturday an aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force was reported overdue on Saturday afternoon. A report from a resident of the district stated that he had heard an aircraft labouring overhead after an explosion. An immediate search was instituted and later the aircraft was found with both the occupants dead. They were Sergeant Graham Ballantyne Steele (father, Mr J. B. Steele, of Walton, Waikato), and Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur Rickley (mother, Mrs F. P. Rickley, Waipukurau).
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Southland Times, Issue 24884, 26 October 1942, Page 4
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104PLANE FOUND AFTER EXPLOSION Southland Times, Issue 24884, 26 October 1942, Page 4
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