AIR TRAGEDY
PLANE CRASHES INTO CLIFF IN N.S.W. TWO OCCUPANTS KILLED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY. August 1. An Air Force training aeroplane crashed into a cliff in the Blue Mountains this afternoon and the two occupants were killed. The victims were Pilot Officer Harry Hopwood and the co-pilot Vincent Monterole. The former was incinerated when the plane was burned. The police think that the pilot lost his bearings in a mist, sought to land in wild country, and crashed into the mountain-side. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 5
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83AIR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 5
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