TWO AIRMEN KILLED
MACHINE CRASHES
DURING INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT.
TRAGEDY NEAR RIVERHEAD.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Whenuapai, were killed instantly near Riverhead (22 miles north-west of Auckland) this merning, when the aircraft of which they were the occupants, crashed.
They were:— Pilot Officer Athol Foster, whose mother is Mrs H. P. R. Foster, of 5 Westbourne Road, Remuera, Auckland. Leading Aircraftman Keith Millen McCulloch, whose mother, Mrs D. E. McCulloch, resides at Mount Wellington Highway, Otahuhu, Auckland. The aircraft, which was of the trainer type, was engaged in an instructional flight, and the occupants were wearing parachutes but did not use them.
The aircraft was completely wrecked but did not catch on fire. A Court of Inquiry will be held.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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