HIT LOW HILL
PLANE TOTALLY WRECKED
(P.A.) BLENHEIM, This Day. The crash occurred about 7.20 p.m., soon after Hathaway had taken off on exercises involvin' i wide circuit of the aerodrome. Tl. machine was seen losing height from about 800 feet. The crash took place on a low foothill about three miles south-west of the aerodrome, just as the pilot was turning preparatory to coming in to land. The machine was totally wrecked. It did not catch fire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 8
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