TERRIBLE CRASH
SWIFT AIR FORCE PLANE.
MACHINE AND PILOT BURIED DEEP IN GROUND.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 2.
The force with which a Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane monoplane crashed, at 400 miles an hour, from a height of 2,000 feet, buried the machine and pilot twenty feet in the earth. The body has not yet been recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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64TERRIBLE CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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