AIRMEN KILLED
TWO. AEROPLANES IN COLLISION.
(Received 29th August, 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, 28th August.
Flying Officer Butlin and Pilot Officers De Robeck and Peck were killed while engaged in fighting manoeuvres. When a thousand feet up two aeroplanes collisioned, and fell headlong. One machine was ascending steeply and struck the second beneSth a wing, and then immediately nose-dived. The second aeroplane appeared to recover, and was gliding earthwards when it suddenly crumpled up.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 8
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