TRAGIC MISHAP
DESTRUCTION GF ATLANTIC PLANE FAILURE IM TAKE-OFF. ALL OCCUPANTS DEAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Dav. at Noon.) LONDON. August 15. An Atlantic plane was rising clear when it split up and caught fire. Three fire brigades, assisted by soldiers and ground staff, fought the fire.<■ Only one man, a Californian, Errol Watson, was extricated alive, and he died in hospital. Captain Joseph Creighton Mackey, of Kansas City, who is reported to have been killed in the same crash, was the sole survivor of the plane accident in Newfoundland, when Sir Frederick Eanting was killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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97TRAGIC MISHAP Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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