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AEROPLANE CRASHES IHTO SHOP LONDON, July 31. A Belgian army plane, when Hying at a great height, burst into llauics (says the Brussels correspondent of ‘The Times’)- The .pilot leapt out in a parachute with his ,c!othes on lire, and landed in‘a field, being slightly iniured. . , , The burning aeroplane crashed on to .a shop roof at Tirlemont, near Brussels. The petrol tank exploded and set fire to the shop, the shopkeeper being trapped in the flames and incinerated.
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Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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81BOLT FROM BLUE Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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