PLANE EXPLODES OVER TOWN
LONDON, September 10.
Three persons were killed and another was seriously, injured when a Royal Air Force jet Meteor aeroplane blew up above the town of iPrittlewell. Essex, to-day.
The townspeople dived for cover as the aeroplane exploded and disintegrated. showering burning debris into the streets and houses. The pilot was killed instantly, and a man and a woman were killed when the flaming engine sliced through a house. Firemen dug an elderly Woman from th? house. She was taken to hospital.
Eye-witnesses said that the aeroplane blew up at a height of about 1500 feet after flying out of low cloud One man said: “There was a tremendous roar and then the explosion One moment the aircraft was there, and the next there was nothing hu' a column of smoke. It was as if a bomb had been dropped.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 7
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