AIRMAN’S DEATH
<t> ACCIDENT NEAR BLENHEIM. VERDICT AT INQUEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. A verdict that death was caused by multiple injuries, . including severe head injuries, was returned by the Coroner (Mr Maunsell), at an inquest yesterday into the death of Raymond Edward George Mason, aged 22, a pilot-trainee at the Woodbourne Flying School, who was killed on August 21, when a Vickers-Vincent bomber he was piloting crashed into a farm shed at Dillon's Point, a few miles from Blenheim, Captain Moore, Medical Officer attached to Woodbourne, gave evidence that death was instantaneous as a result of severe head injuries caused by the force of the crash. Mrs Mary Isobel Young, at the rear of whose house the plane crashed, said the Vincent circled the property and then appeared to dive on to the shed. The plane did not recover from the dive and burst into flames when it struck the shed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 4
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154AIRMAN’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 4
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