CRANWELL COLLISION
WHAT WITNESSES SAW
LONDON, May 1. The collision in mid-air between two R.A.F. aeroplanes, in which four officers were killed, including Flight^Cadet John Aickcn Plugge, of Taupiri, New Zealand, was witnessed by the occupants of a lonely farmhouse and a few labourers near Cranwell, who saw a machine flying south and another west, and heard a crash like a thunderclap. All the victims were found dead in the aeroplanes, not having had time to utilise parachutes. Labourers had to dodge falling fragments. The aeroplanes made huge holes in the ground, the engines taking four hours to extricate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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99CRANWELL COLLISION Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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