POWER LINE HIT BY JET
Women Saw Team Crash
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) MELBOURNE. Aug 16.
The four R.A.A.F. jets which crashed near Sale in Eastern Victoria yesterday exploded after one of them hit power wires. three women witnesses said today The women told reporters today they were admiring the jets as they flew past their car on a lonely road near Dutson Downs. 14 miles south of Sale. The next second all four jets had exploded 200 yards in front of them and the woman driving the car couldn’t pull up. Within 50 yards of the wreckage, the driver of the car. Mrs B. Knox, managed to swing the car round. A passenger in the car. Mrs A. Freeman, told reporters: “One jet hit the wires and plummeted into the ground The other three just seemed to touch and explode in a mass of flames and flying metal.” A team of R.A.A.F investigators today began sifting the charred, wreckage - strewn scene of the crash in which six flying instructors were killed.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 13
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