NINE DEATHS
IN BRITISH AIR FORCE CRASHES SERGEANT-PILOT SAVES BOY. BUT LOSES HIS OWN LIFE. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propellor of another machine, near the Wittering Royal Air Force Station, Sergeant-Pilot J. A. Bullard pushed a schoolboy passenger into space and shouted: "Don’t get scared. Count five, then pull the ripcord.” The boy's parachute opened and floated him safely to the ground. Bullard then tried to use his own parachute, but was unable to climb out of the wildly spinning plane until too near the ground and was killed instantly. Two Royal Air Force planes collid ed in mid-air near Deal and three oc cupants were killed.
A Royal Air Force bomber crashed near Driffield and three persons were killed.
Another bomber, with a crew of two-, plunged into the sea eight miles south of Bridlington. The crew, it is feared, are all killed. Eye-witnesses said the plane, after dropping a bomb, hit the water and vanished in a cloud of smoke.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 8
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