FLYING TRAGEDIES.
Five R.A.F. Deaths in Two Days
In Britain. YEAR'S TOLL 27. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 9. Three Royal Air Force fatalities yesterday and one to-day increased the year's death roll to 27. Lieutenants D. Margetts, and J. Newshani, who were flying an aeroplane attached to the aircraft-carrier Furious, were killed in an accident off the northwest coast of Scotland. Squadron-Leader L. Elworthy was killed when his parachute failed, to open after he had jumped from a big bomber containing four officers. The engine stopped, but the pilot made a perfect landing.
Two 'planes attached to tl.e Digby flying school collided at Andover. Pilot Officers Bret and. Leggatt were killed. Both were due to go on leave to-morrow.
AT BATAVIA.
WEIR'S FLIGHT TO ENGLAND,
BATAVIA, June 9.
The young Sydney airman, Mr. James Weir ; who left Darwin on Monday morning on an attempted flight to England, has arrived at Batavia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1932, Page 7
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