FATAL AIR CRASHES
TWO AIRMEN KILLED ON KAPITI ANOTHER IN SOUTH ISLAND. PUPIL PILOT INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When a R.N.Z.A.F. aircraft was reported overdue on a flight from the South Island yesterday morning, a search was immediately instituted, and wreckage was located at Kapiti Island. A launch, with medical officers aboard, was immediately dispatched, but on its arrival it was ascertained that the two occupants of the plane had lost their lives when the aircraft crashed. The personnel concerned were:
Pilot Officer Harbld Nevill Longley (father, A. H. Longley, of Wellington, and formerly of Invercargill). Flight Sergeant Ivan Frederick Cummins (father, F. W. Cummins, of Manawera).
Later in the afternoon a training type of aircraft crashed near another South Island training station, the pilot losing his life, and a pilot pupil receiving injuries. The pilot officer was Hugh Eagleson (wife, Mrs N. M. Eagleson, of Taupiri), and the pupil Leading Aircraftman Neil Baillie Grant (mother, Mrs G. M. Grant, of Auckland).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1943, Page 4
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