SIX DEATHS
AT AUSTRALIAN FLYING SCHOOL PLANE GOES INTO SPIN. CRASH IN FLAMES. (By Telegraph—Press Associaiton —Copyright) SYDNEY, November 11. Five trainees of the air observers’ school were killed and a sixth burned so badly that he died in hospital when an Air Force aeroplane crashed in the vicinity of the flying school at Cootamundra today. Local residents heard a crash and immediately saw smoke and flames. They rushed to the scene and were able to drag only one man out 6f the blazing plane. The others were burned to death. The victims are Pilot Officer James Hearne, aged 20, and five leading aircraftmen: John Cameron, aged 26; Ernest Piercey, aged 30; James Stanley, aged 24; Robert Montgomery, aged 26; John Head, aged 25 o,f Fiji. An Air Board official statement says that the crew was engaged in training exercises about two miles from Cootamundra aerodrome, and, according to eye-witnesses, the plane appeared to go into a spin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 5
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