FATAL CRASH
BOMBER MEETS DISASTER AT TAIERI SQUADRON-LEADER KITSON KILLED. OTHER MEMBERS OF CREW INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. This Day. An Airspeed Oxford bomber, visiting here from Christchurch, under the command of SquadronLeader Kitson, crashed at the Taieri aerodrome at 7.25 this morning, immediately bursting into flames. Squadron-Leader Kitson was killed outright. Pilot-Officer McNab was slightly injured and Aircraftsman Kilpatrick was severely burned.
A Christchurch Press Association message states that Squadron-Leader Kitson was promoted only yesterday from the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. He joined the R.A.F. in 1934 and arrived in New Zealand, on loan to R.N.Z.A.F., in March of this year. He was a married man and his wife and two children live in England.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 6
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116FATAL CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 6
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