MACHINE CAUGHT FIRE
(Rec. noon.) LONDON, August 15. The aeroplane was rising clear when it suddenly began to lose height, and, struck the road at the edge of the aerodrome, which is raised at this point It split up and caught fire. Three fire brigades, assisted by soldiers and ground staff, fought the fire. j Only one man, a Californian, Mr.! I ErroJ Watson, was extricated alive, but i he died m hospital. Captain Joseph Creighton Mackey, of Kansas City, reported to have been killed in the same crash, was the sole survivor of the accident in Newfoundland in which Sir Frederick Banting was killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 10
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