CRASH IN MOUNTAINS
TREE TOPS STRUCK FIVE PEOPLE KILLED DISASTER IN SWEDEN London, Oct. 10. A Stockholm hospital 'plane crashed in Mie mountains in North Sweden. Five people were killed. The 'plane was Ilyina to Stockholm with a woman patient, a doctor, nurse, pilot and assistant pilot from Soerfers when it crashed into the mountain in the fog. After hitting tree tops it caught fire and the occupants were burned to death. PILOT KILLED Sydney, Oct. 17. Another Air Force Avro Anson bomber crashed to-day in the vicinity of Richmond aerodrome during a height test. A cadet pilot, John Charles Fletcher, aged 19, was killed . Eye-witnesses declare that the machine appeared to collapse at a great height, one wing dropped off and the remainder of the machine being hurled in fragments to earth. The pieces were scattered over a wide area.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12483, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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