ARMY AIRMAN KILLED.
FALL OF A THOUSAND FEET. 'PLANE TURNS TURTLE. PASSENGERS MUTILATED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Receiv-d Z1.30 a_m.) LONDON, September 6. A *ad fatality occurred at Stonehenge to-day during aerial manoeuvres. Captain P. Hamilton, of the Worcestershire Regiment, and Ijeut. Wynes Stewart, were flying in a Dippcrdussin monoplane, wlwn at a height of 1000 ft the machine developed a defect. Deprived of its motive power, the machine e-topped, turned turtle, and fell to earth, the petrol tank exploding during the fall.
The monoplane and iU passengers crashed into a tree, where the machine was smashed to atoms, the tangled masses of its parts overhanging the hedges alongside the tree.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 5
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