SECOND CRASH FATAL
An aeroplane, after taking off from Croydon recently, crashed in an adjoining field at Purley Way, and the sole occupant, Captain Edliss Hill, aged thirty, was killed. An eye-witness said: "As the machine, a small twinengined monoplane, approached Puiv ley Way one engine faltered and then stopped completely. The nose dipped, and it flew straight into the ground.' 1 Captain Hill joined Commercial Hire, Ltd., of Croydon recently after working for the Blackpool and West Coast Air Service. Only a few weeks previously he had an amaz. ing escape when a machine he waal flying crashed into a tree top nea^ Croydon
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 12
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105SECOND CRASH FATAL Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 12
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