TROOP PLANE MISHAP
Two Air Force Men Killed In
Parachute Jump
ACCIDENT IN N.S.W
Rec. 2 p.m
SYDNEY, this day.
A minute after the propeller broke from the starboard engine of their transport plane and ripped through the wing, 17 Allied Air Force personnel parachuted into wild and mountainous country near Laguna, New South Wales. Two men were killed instantly when their parachutes failed to open. The plane travelled six miles after the propeller broke away, and made a crash landing. . . Five of the crew who remained in the plane were uninjured. The plane was travelling from New Guinea to Sydney with 22 men ot the Air Force, most of whom were on leave. Some were playing cards when they heard the crash of the propeller arid a ripping sound of metal tearing from the wing. They quickly responded to orders to don parachutes and jump from the plane, which lost altitude quickly: Most of the men had not jumped before.-" Three injured men were admitted, to -hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 59, 10 March 1944, Page 6
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