AIR DISASTER.
PILOT OF BOMBER KILLED.
CRASH IN NIGHT PRACTICE
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 25.
During night practice in a rainstorm an Air .Force bomber crashed in a wood at Altom, turned over and ploughed through brushwood 300 yards on its back. ' The pilot was killed and two others were injured.
VICTORIAN PILOT KILLED.
MELBOURNE, Nov; 25. An Air Force aeroplane crashed during an instructional flight near Point Cook yesterday. Flying Officer P. McDonough was killed, but his companion, Cadet .I’. Costello, was not seriously injured. The ’plane was wrecked but it did not catch fire.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 5
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