COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
'PLANE STRIKES SPECTATORS. ■ LANDING GROUND FATALITIES. , (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.), .... HOBART, This Day. After an inquiry into the air accident at Swansea, on February 5, when Mrs A. T. Cotton and her daughter were killed, the Coroner committed pilotofficer E. "V. Lansell, of the Royal Aus.tralian Air Force, for trial on a charge of manslaughter. • ■ ' .'- ' The evidence disclosed that prior to the accident three air force ..bombers indulged in "stunting," and, contrary to the regulations, dived within 200 feet of the ground. ' Lansell's explanation of the accident was that' his. 'plane was sluggish in leaving the : ground, rising only three feet compared with his companion's forty feet,, at the scene of the accident.
When an Air Force bomber failed to rise at Swansea landing-ground and washed into a crowd of spectators, Mrs A. T. Cotton and Miss Jean Cotton were killed and others were injured. The bomber, with three others, had flown from Point Cook aerodrome to carry out air exercises and photograph extensive parts of the country south of Launceston.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 122, 5 March 1936, Page 5
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