COLLISION IN MID-AIR
BOTH MACHINES CRASH
TWO LIVES LOjST
ADELAIDE, June-24. V Flying near Parafield Aerodrome yesterday, two aeroplanes ■■ collided at 200 f eeti The pilots, Laurence Newman, aged 27,; and Blair Cowan, aged 19, were killed.. , ._ •
When the: machines touched, one of the wings of Cowan 's aeroplane was ripped off, and his machine nosedived. Newman attempted to make a flat landing but was too near the ground, and Ms^machine nosedived to earth. The aeroplanes fell a quarter of a'mile apart, both a mass, of wreckage. Newman was crushed.^ He had been^ married only three weeks. . . ' n .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 9
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98COLLISION IN MID-AIR Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 9
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