CORONER CONCERNED.
NUMBER OF AIR FATALITIES. AUCKLAND. Jan. 21. "The Air Force has held a departmental inquiry, and I am concerned only with the cause of death, though, like many others of the public, 1 am concerned about the number of accidents in air training,” said the Coroner (Mr F. K. Hunt) in conducting an inquest into the deaths cf three airmen who were killed in the crash of a bomber aeroplane at Woodville, near Helensville, on December 21. The airmen were Flying Officer Eric Francis Holcla.way, aged 34, Sergeant Pilot Turua Eric Eldershaw, aged 21, of Auckland, and Sergeant Pilot George Bevan Eathorne, aged 27, of Christchurch. Evidence showed that the machine was examined before the flight and found airworthy. The pilot had had 12 years’ experience, and the other men were also experienced. They were not on a training flight. The Coroner found formally that the cause of death was the crashing of an aeroplane on an exorcise flight.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 86, 22 January 1942, Page 2
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