ROYAL AIR FORCE CRASH

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 9

ROYAL AIR FORCE CRASH

AN OFFICER KILLED Rugby, February 17. When flying over the cliffs near Capel, between Folkestone and Dover this afternoon two Royal. Air Force aeroplanes collided at a height of 2000 feet and crashed. The machines, which were single-seater Grebes, belonged to the Twenty-fifth Squadron, at Hawkings, and were piloted by Flying Officer Welsh and Flying Officer Watson. Watson was picked up badly injured and died later. Welsh dropped by a prachute from his machine when about 1000 feet up. Ke was carried nearly half a mile by the parachute before falling on the telegraph wires on the Folkestone-Dover main road. The fall broke the wires, but Welsh escaped injury.—British Official Wireless. FLYING FATALITIES IN AMERICA (Rec. February 19, 11.5 p.m. New York, February 18. Two aeroplane accidents resulted in five deaths. A ’plane Jell in a main thoroughfare of Macon, Georgia, killed two flyers and one pedestrian, and injured several others slightly, while a heavy wind blew . a second ’plane against a tower in Columbia, South Carolina, and two young passengers were burned to death, but the pilot was tossed clear of the wreckage and escaped uninjured.