DID NOT TAKE-OFF.
'Plane Crashes With Load Of
Bombs.
CREW JUMP CLEAR IN TIME
(Received 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, January 15.
A Royal Air Force boruber failed to take off in Scotland and crashed. Its bombs exploded and blew the 'plane to pieces. The explosion shook houses for six miles around. The five occupants jumped clear before the crash and were not hurt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 8
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