AIRMAN KILLED
IN NIGHT-FLYING EXERCISE AT WIGRAM
CRASH TWO MILES AWAY FROM AERODROME.
VICTIM ATTENDED SCHOOL IN MASTER TON.
ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day
The sole occupant of an aircraft engaged in night-flying exercises at R.N.Z.A.F. Station. Wigram, was killed at 3.10 a.m. yesterday, when the machine crashed two miles from the aerodrome. He was Leading Aircraftsman Allen Henry Mclver, son of Mr R. JMclver. 66 Rangitane Street. Palmerston North. It is believed that the pilot overshot the flarepath, and during the recovery flew into the ground. A Court of Inquiry is being set up. Leading Aircraftsman Mclver was the younger son of Mr and Mrs R. JMclver, of 66 Rangitane Street. Palmerston North. He was born in 1914 and was educated at the Masterton Central and at the Palmerston North Technical Schools. He enlisted in the Air Force in Nelson, where he was employed. and entered the Weraroa 1 raining' School last September. He was transferred to the Taieri aerodrome in October and went to Wigram on December 27.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 6
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