ELEVEN MEN KILLED
TWO AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. Eleven Royal Air Force men were killed and one was injured in two Lincoln bomber crashes in different parts of Britain to-day. One Lincoln returning from an allnight training flight over-ran the runway, killing five members of the crew and injuring the sixth. Another Lincoln with a crew of six or seven crashed on the slopes of a mountain in Wales. Rescuers recovered six bodies from the wreckage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 129, 16 March 1950, Page 5
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