FATAL INJURIES
SUFFERED BY AIRMAN. PLANES COLLIDE ON GROUND AT BELL BLOCK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 6. Fatal injuries were received by the pilot of a Royal New Zealand Air Force machine when two planes collided while taxiing at No 2 Elementary Flying Training School, Bell Block, six miles from New Plymouth this morning. The injured man was Leading Aircraftsman G. W. de Vere, Auckland, who died in hospital last night. The machines, both Gipsy Moth training planes, had just landed after flights and were taxiing along the field when the collision occurred. A companion in de Vere’s machine was unhurt, and so was the sole occupant of the other machine. One machine was damaged extensively and the other not so heavily. Aircraftman de Vere, who was taitfm by ambulance to hospital, arrived arj* the Bell Block station from Weraroa on August 24. It was the first, fatal accident at the training school.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 4
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