CRASH ON COTTAGES
Eight Killed, Several Injured In English Village
AIRMEN JUMP FROM PLANE
Rec. 10.30 a.m.
LONDON, Oct. 6.
Eight persons were killed, two are missing and a number were injured when a British plane crashed last night into Middle Somersham, a village in Huntingdonshire, wrecking six cottages and damaging others. When the plane got into difficulties the crew baled out and landed safely. The crash caused a tremendous fire which was visible for miles. Firemen Home Guards, soldiers and airmen' joined in the work of rescuing those trapped and recovering bodies fl The t plane b ciit off the roof of one house but the occupants were downstairs' and escaped- It then went raicht through another house and crashed into a cottage on the opposite side of the street.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 3
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