MILITARY 'PLANES CRASH
TWO KILLED IN FINLAND
(Received 26th March, 2 p.m.)
HELSINGFORS, 25th March,
During a demonstration of military formation flying, watched by 7000 people on ice near Sverborg Fortress, two 'planes looping at a height of 2000 feet collided and burst into flames. The blazing fragments were scattered by a high wind, and the 'planes interlocked fell to the ice. Lieutenant ArtoVa and Flying-Master Salomen were killed.
The crowd rushed to the blazing 'planes, the ice cracking ominously. The pol.tc and military drove them back,
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 14
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