TWO PILOTS KILLED.
AIR FORCE ’PLANES COLLIDE. ’United Press Association—Copyright./ LONDON, November 24. During night-flying exercises two Royal Ail- Force fighters, flying tandem, collided near Kenley aerodrome and crashed. One fell in flames. The pilot was burned, to death . The parachute belonging to the other pilot, who was also killed, was found burned. The pilot was apparently jumping to safety when lie was caught in a- tree and one leg was torn off. Another pilot from Kenley aerodrome crashed earlier and was found amid the wreckage nursing a, broken ankle.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 39, 25 November 1937, Page 5
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