MID-AIR COLLISION
TWO PLANES IN SEA
ONLY ONE MAN RESCUED
(Received January 17, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day
Two Air Force planes collided m mid-air and crashed into the sea three miles from the coast off Terrigal, midway between Sydney and Newcastle.
Only one occupant of the planes has yet been rescued and it is not ascertainable yet how many were on board each machine.
The survivor was rescued by a coastal vessel after clinging to the tail of one machine, the tail having been smashed off in the impact.
An eye-witness said that three planes were flying in formation. They were making sharp turns when two of them collided. One crashed straight down into ,the sea. The other travelled several miles before it also crashed into the sea.
An intensive search of the area is being • made by planes from Sydney and Newcastle, two coastal vessels, and fishing boats, but no sign of the other occupants of the lost machines has been found.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 6
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