FOUR KILLED
AIR FORCE PLANE CRASHES INTO HOUSE AFTER DIVING ACROSS GARDEN. DISASTER AT BRIGHTON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, February 12. Four persons were killed when a single-seater Air Force fighter stalled in dense fog over Brighton, circled the housetops, struck and demolished a greenhouse and dived across a garden, losing a wheel and embedding itself in a house containing four flats. The petrol tank exploded and set fire to the plane and the building. Fireman worked for 21 hours before they were able to extricate the bodies of the airman, Sergeant William Bruen, and Mrs R. L. Baigent, who was cooking lunch for her boy and girl, who were playing with their toys. Her husband was absent and has not yet been traced. Ten other occupants of the house were rescued uninjured Flames precluded the saving of the Baigents.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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140FOUR KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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