CRASH LANDINGS
TWELVE AMERICAN PLANES ONE PILOT KILLED AND OTHERS INJURED NEW YORK, Feb. 21. It is officially stated that 12 singleseater navy persuit planes crashlanded in a wide ‘area near Pensacola (Florida) last night, five of the planes being destroyed. Officials at Pensacola air station said that the planes started a routine formation flight at dusk and immediately encountered a dense bank of fog. They separated to avoid collisions in mid-air. However, the fog persisted, forcing blind landings when their petrol was depleted after flying blind for more than five hours. A Brazilian lieutenant, G. P. Presa Wo, a student pilot, was killed and other pilots injured, but “not seriously.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 7
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111CRASH LANDINGS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 7
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