AVIATION ACCIDENT.
JAPANESE FLYER KILLED. New York, March 30 Captain Yoshinori Nagoya., a Japr anese Army reserve flyer, was killed instantly in a. new £BOOO aeroplane in which ho had hoped to make a non-stop flight from the United States to Japan. The machine crushed near the Floyd Bennett airport a few seconds after Captain Nagoya had started on a. trial flight. The body of the airman was removed just before the gasoline tank exploded. The consequent fire completely destroyed the craft.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10832, 2 April 1932, Page 3
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