AIR COLLISION
INQUEST ON FOUR VICTIMS
(P.A.)
BLENHEIM, This Day
A formal verdict was returned at an inquest into the deaths of Sergeant Pilot Matthew William Coxan and Leading Aircraftmen James Duff Hewitt, Charles William Hildreth, and Gordon Keith Claris.
The three last were pilot trainees who were killed in a collision between two planes over the township, of Renwick on the morning of December 31 The evidence followed the usual strictly formal lines. Squadron Leader J R. S. Agar. officer commanding the training squadron, said that the authorisation book showed the machines took off on training flights and crashed approximately half an hour later. He identified the bodies
Lieutenant W H. Reid, medical officer, described the men's injuries, and said that death in all four cases was instantaneous.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 7
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129AIR COLLISION Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 7
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