AEROPLANE CRASH
DISASTER IN VICTORIA. STALLED DURING TURN. TWO OCCUPANTS KILLED. United Press Association — Copyright i (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 15. Two members of the Royal Australian Air Force were killed to-day, when a ’plane crashed from 1000 feet and then caught fire near the R.A.A.F. station at Lever ton. Tho victims were Pilot-officer James Norman Alexander, aged 20, of Strath field, Now South Wales, and Sergeant W. K. Platt, aged 27, of Victoria. The ’plane was flying in formation and stalled during a turn.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 81, 16 January 1940, Page 6
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