FATAL CRASH
THREE LIVES LOST (Rec. 11.0) LE lIARVE, April 17. Two adults and a child aged 30 months were killed when a British private Proctor aircraft, crashed in the channel soon after leaving Guernsey for Lympne. The child was the daughter of a London woman whom French fishermen picked up after she had been five hours in the water clinging to the wreckage of the aircraft. The skipper of Ihe fishing boat said the woman was seen holding the child as the boat approached, but was unable to keep her daughter afloat. The woman was the only survivor.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 159, 18 April 1947, Page 4
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