FATALITY AT PAGEANT
PREMATURE EXPLOSION OF BOMB
AEROPLANE CRASHES. FLYING INSTRUCTOR KILLED IN N.S.W. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, January 30. During an aerial pageant at Orange today a fatal crash occurred. Mr Ernest J. Buck, chief instructor of the Newcastle Aero Club, who was demonstrating the bombing of a fort, had dropped two bombs and was apparently about to drop a third when it accidently or prematurely exploded, blowing his arm of. The machine immediately got out of control, rose suddenly and then fell like a stone outside the aerodrome. Mr Buck was killed instantly. HEROIC EFFORT WOUNDED MAN AVERTS CRASH INTO CROWD. PASSENGER ALSO KILLED. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A second victim of the Blue Mountains crash was Clarence Edward Stumbles, aged 32. a passenger. It is now stated that after Mr Buck's arm was blown off, he controlled the machine sufficiently long enough to avoid crashing into the crowd. Mr Buck pulled the plane out of a dive four hundred feet above the onlookers, climbed to eight hundred feet and slipped from there into a spin, which crashed the plane on the ground fifty yards in front of the screaming crowd.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 5
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198FATALITY AT PAGEANT Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 5
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