DELIBERATE CRASH
COURTS DEATH TO SAVE TROOPS
AVOIDING COLLISION
trnltd Press Association—By Eltetrlo Titoeraph—Copyright. (Received 9th August 11 a.m.) LONDON, Bth August. Twelve hundred soldiers of the Boyal Fusiliers, ending their manoeuvres on the Susses Downs, witnessed a hero's death when Air-Pilot Sergeant Owen MacNair, aged 25, who had swooped in order to demonstrate machine-gun-lung infantry, swerved and deliberately crashed in order to avoid killing adjacent infantrymen, whom he could not otherwise have avoided.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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74DELIBERATE CRASH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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