AVIATION MIRACLE
PLANE'S AMAZING RECOVERY,
PILOT DASHED TO DEATH
(Received May 4, 9.50 a.m.)
LONDON, May 3.
An amazing mishap occurred at Romford, when a 23-year-old aviator, a chemist named Douglas Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into a spin and then failed to flatten out. The machine continued upside down and Gee was hurled to death on a railway line. Oscroft was suspended in the air from the strap of his seat, but rranaged to _et his legs around the control stick and the machine miraculously righted itself. Oscroft made a safe landing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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