WRECKED PLANE
FOUND IN TARARUAS
CREW OF TWO KILLED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday.
An aeroplane of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, reported missing on a training flight on January 14 last, has been located wrecked at Mitre Peak, in the Tararua Ranges, north of Masterton. The bodies of the crew of two were discovered with the machine. They were:—
Leading-Aircraftman Ronald Alfred Walter Abrahams, R.N.Z.A.F.— Flight-Sergeant W. A. Abrahams, R.N.Z.A.F. (father). Leading-Aircraftman James Edgar Norman Corin,. R.N.Z.A.F.—Mrs. W. H. Corin, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Auckland (wife). The wrecked aircraft was discovered by Mr. M. Trass, after a search party had made an extremely difficult journey through heavy bush and over mountainous country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 106, 7 May 1942, Page 8
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