Jet Crashes On Caravan Site
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. Two Australian Naval officers were killed in a jet plane crash today. Their Venom fighter careered off the rooftops of four houses at Ilchester, Somerset, and crashed into the middle of a caravan site. A mother and her child killed and three others were injured. The Australians were Lieutenant Peter Haldane Wyatt, Royal Australian Navy, who was the pilot, and Commander George Firth Spencer Brown. The Sea Venom aircraft ripped through flimsy caravans in the thick fog about five minutes after taking off from a naval air station. Eye-witnesses said that the jet apparently was trying to rise over Ilchester when it hit a tree, sheared through it and clipped tiles and a chimney from the roofs of four houses. Fire broke out immediately after the plane crashed into a village of 30 caravans. The blaze was controlled after damaging several caravans. The woman and baby were the wife and child of an airman at the base.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 2
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