AIR TRAGEDY
VICE-MARSHAL BLOUNT KILLED PLANE FAILS TO GAIN HEIGHT. DAMAGE DONE TO HOUSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 24. The “Evening News” stated that Air Vice-Marshal C. H. B. Blount, commander of the Air Component of the B.E.F. in France, was killed in an air crash. His plane failed to gain height and hit a tree, after taking off, skimmed the roofs of some houses, stripping off tiles, and crashed in a garden, smashing in the front of a house and damaging two others. The plane then caught fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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95AIR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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