AIR TRAGEDY
TWO PLANES COLLIDE A TRAINEE KILLED. PILOT OF SECOND MACHINE INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. As the result of two aircraft colliding on the ground at Lake Grassmere shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a trainee, Leading Aircraftman John William Thomas Nelson, was killed. His mother, Mrs H. Nelson, resides at 111 Chaucer Road, Napier.
The pilot of the second machine was very slightly injured, and his passenger escaped injury.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 2
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74AIR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 2
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