AIR TRAGEDY
MACHINES COLLIDE TWO MEN KILLED. INSTRUCTOR AND PUPIL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A mid-air collision between two aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force yesterday morning resulted in the occupants of one machine, an instructor and a pupil pilot, losing their lives. The personnel involved were: — Flying Officer Robert William Douglas Cowper (next-of-kin, mother, Mrs A. E. Cowper, 5 Bell Street, Wanganui), who was the instructor. Leading Aircraftman Derek Thomas Lippitt (next-of-kin, father, Mr C. F. Lippitt, Murray Street, Wallaceville). The occupant of the other machine was uninjured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1942, Page 2
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