AIR TRAGEDY
A PILOT KILLED COLLISION BETWEEN PLANES. WHILE ENGAGED IN FORMATION FLYING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. One pilot was. killed and another escaped uninjured by parachute when two aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force collided while engaged in formation flying from a North Island air station yesterday morning. They were: Sergeant John Galt Dickie (father. Mr C. J. Dickie, Waverley), who lost his life. Flying Officer John Henry Mills escaped without injury. Parachutes were used by both pilots involved in the collision.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1943, Page 2
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87AIR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1943, Page 2
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