CRASH AT 490 M.P.H.
PLANE AND PILOT BURIED 20 FEET IN GROUND. LONDON, Feb. 2. The force with which a Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane monoplane crashed at 400 miles an hour from a height of 2000 feet buried the machine and the pilot 20 feet in the earth. The body has not vet been recovered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 10
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56CRASH AT 490 M.P.H. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 10
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