TWO AIRMEN KILLED
CRASH NEAR CANTERBURY BEACH DURING CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT. CAUSE OF TRAGEDY UNKNOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Two air pilots under training were killed instantly, near Leithfield Beach. Canterbury, when a R.N.Z.A.F. aircraft crashed and caught fire at ten o’clock this morning. The occupants were: Leading Aircraftman Basil Rawdon Hastings Sharp, whose father, Mr F. J. Sharp, resides at 87 Lytton Road, Gisborne. Leading Aircraftman Leslie Wright, whose mother, Mrs L. Wright, resides at 44 Weka Street, Frankton Junction. The aircraft, which was piloted by Aircraftman Sharp, with Aircraftman Wright as a passenger, was engaged in an instrument-flying, traingular, crosscountry flight from Wigram. It crashed at the junction of the Leithfield Beach Road and the Main North Road. The cause of the accident is unknown. A court of inquiry will be held.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 6
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