FIVE KILLED.
FLYING FATALITIES. Black Week-end for R-A.F. in Britain. SEQUENCE OF CRASHES. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.nj.) LONDON", June 6. Five members of the Royal Air Force were killed in the week-end. A bomber, which had been missing since Friday in misty weather, was fotuul to have crashed in Westmorland. Two men were dead in the machine, which struck the face of a precipice and dropped 50 feet to a huge boulder, preventing it rolling hundreds of feet down the mountainside. Another bomber crashed and caught fire in a fog at Auclitengallie. Scotland, and two aviators were burned to death. A third 'plane went into a spin and struck a tree in Berkshire. Sergeant John Hoe. of the Royal Air Force training school, was killed. ON BRAZIL COAST. MRS. PUTNAM'S FLIGHT. (Received 10 a.m.). PORT NATAL, June 6. Mrs. Amelia (Earliart) Putnam, who is flying eastwards round the world in her fa mous "F lying Laboratory,' arrived from Fort Aleza, Brazil, wher-j ?he was forced down. Her next hop is across the South Atlantic to West Africa.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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