WOODBOURNE AIR CRASH
PILOT’S DEATH FROM INJURIES (By Telegraph.—Press Association) BLENHEIM, Friday A verdict that death was caused by multiple Injuries, including severe head injuries, was returned by the coroner, Mr Maunsell, at an inquest yesterday into the death of Raymond Edward George Mason, aged 22, a pilot trainee at the Woocfboume Fly ■ ing School, who was killed on August 21 when a Vickers Vincent bomber he was piloting crashed into a farm shed at Dillon’s point, a few miles from Blenheim.
Captain Moore, Medical Officer attached to Woodboume, gave evidence that death was instantaneous as the result of severe head injuries caused by the force of the crash. Mrs Mary Isobel Young, at the reer of whose house the plane craahed, said the Vincent circled the property and then appeared to dive on the shed. It did not recover from the dive, and burst into flame* when it struck the shed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19400906.2.40
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
152WOODBOURNE AIR CRASH Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in