SEVEN INJURED
TWO VERY SERIOUSLY ON MELBOURNE BEACH. LASHED BY WIRE ROPE TRAILING FROM PLANE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a quarter-inch steel cable, trailing from a R.A.A.F. plane flying low over a beach here, lashed a crowd of holiday-makers. A 17-year-old girl had both her legs severed, while a man had one foot torn off.. Hundreds of holiday-makers scattered as the plane came low over the beach, trailing the rope. Many had narrow escapes. An official inquiry is being held.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1943, Page 4
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