JET CRASHES ON HOUSE
<N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 12. A Sabre jet fighter crashed into a house near Newcastle late today after the pilot parachuted to a field. Mrs Edith Tinitzki. a 60-year-old widow was drinking afternoon tea on the veranda of the house when the jet crashed. She ran screaming as it burst into flames. "I was relaxing when I heard a terrific explosion." she said. “I had no idea what it was. It was horrifying. "The blast threw me against a wall and glass showered from windows and doors. "The whole place seemed to tumble down around me and I could hear fire crackling. “If 1 had been In the back of the house. I would have been killed.” she said. The plane hit her roof and bounced into the backyard where it was flattened with the impact A quarter of a mile away a railway station was crowded with school-children and shift workers;
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 17
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