A HERO'S DEATH.
Fatal Crash Rather Than Land
Among Troops.
TRAGEDY OF MANOEUVRES. (Received 12.50' p.m.) LONDON, August 8. Twelve hundred soldiers of the Royal Fusiliers, ending manoeuvres 011 Sussex 'Downs, witnessed a hero's death when an air pilot, Sergeant Owen MacNair, aged 25. who had swooped in order to demonstrate machine-gunning on the infantry, swerved deliberately and crashcd in order to avoid killing adjacent infantrymen whom he could not have otherwise avoided.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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