PLANES COLLIDE
OVER SOUTH ISLAND STATION TWO AIR FORCE MEMBERS KILLED. OCCUPANT OF ONE MACHINE UNHURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force lost their lives yesterday - morning in a mid-air collision between two aircraft at a South Island air station. They were Flying Officer Cyril Griffith William Henderson (wife, Mrs F. E. Henderron., Christchurch), and Leading Aircraftman Eric Mark Broadhurst (father, M. Broadhurst, Kaikoura). The occupant of the other machine. Leading Aircraftman Keith Owen Whitehouse, of JChandallah. Wellington, escaped without injury, but was admitted to hospital for observation. TWO AIRMEN CLASSIFIED AS MISSING. Q PLANE CRASHES INTO SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were officially classified as missing when an aircraft crashed into the sea off the west coast of the North Island yesterday afternoon. The personnel concerned were Pilot Officer Gerald Temple Odlin (father, Mr A. E. Odlin, Auckland) and Leading Aircraftman William Walker Johnson (father, Mr H. Johnson of Leeds, England):
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 3
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