FORCED LANDING
Air Secretary In R.A.F. Plane LONDON, July 28. A Royal Air Force plane in which the Secretary of Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, was flying to .Belfast, turned back over the Irish Seti because of bad weather. It was not reported for some time, but later it was learned that it had made a forced landing at Kirkby, Lancashire, on a hillside. The Air Minister and Air-Marshal Sholto Douglas, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney, and Com.man'der Sir Edward Campbell were shaken. The pilot and two of the crew were injured and taken to hospital. It was announced recently that the Secretary for Air, accompanied by senior officers of the Royal Air Force, would pay a visit of inspection to the reserve units of the R.A.F. in Northern Ireland on July 28 and 29.
THREE KILLED IN R.A.F. CRASH (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, July 28. Three were killed when a Royal Air Force bomber crashed in flames near Liverpool after a wing had broken off.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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