BOMBER CRASH
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN PILOT KILLED MACHINE COLLAPSES AT GREAT HEIGHT. WING SEEN TO DROP OFF. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, October 16. Another Air Force Avro-Anson bomber crashed today in the vicinity of Richmond aerodrome during a height test. Cadet pilot John Charles Fletcher, aged 19, was killed. Eye-witnesses declare that the machine appeared to collapse at a great height, one wing dropping off. The remainder of the machine was hurled in fragments and earth was scattered over a wide area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 5
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81BOMBER CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 5
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