THREE PLANES CRASH
TRAGIC WEEK-END ACCIDENTS BOMBER STRIKES PRECIPICE Five Airmen Lose Lives Press Association —Copyright. Received June 7, 10.30 a.m. London, June 6. Five members of the Royal Air Force were killed during the week-end. The bombing plane which had been missing since June 4th when it was lost in misty weather, was found crashed at Westmoreland. Both pilot and observer were dead in the machine, which had struck the face of a precipice and dropped fifty feet to a huge boulder, preventing it rolling hundreds of feet down the mountainside. Another bomber crashed in the fog at Auchtengallie, Scotland, and caught fire. The two occupants were burned to death. A third plane went into a spin and struck a tree in Berkshire, Sergeant John Roe, of the Royal Air Force Training School, being killed.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 7 June 1937, Page 5
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136THREE PLANES CRASH Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 7 June 1937, Page 5
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