DEATHS OF AIRMEN
Verdict At Inquest'
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 21. A formal verdict was returned today by Mr. ’Woodward, S.M., district coroner, at an inquest into the deaths of Flight Lieutenant Harold Cuthbert Wiles, and Aircraftman Norman William Wilson. Both were killed when a machine of the R.N.Z.A.F’. crashed about two miles to the north-west of the aerodrome when engaged iu night living training operations on October 15. Finding that death was instantaneous, and resulted from multiple injuries caused when the machine crashed and caught fire, Mr. Woodward said a full technical inquiry had been held into the accident, and no doubt any measures which might prevent similar accidents suggested as the result of that inquiry woul'd be taken.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 12
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