MIDAIR COLLISION
FOUR MEN KILLED ONE A NEW ZEALANDER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON* May 1. (Received May 2, at 11.55 a.ra.) A Bulldog lighter, piloted by Flight-lieutenant Joseph Seymour Tanner, with Flight-cadet John Aickeu Plugge, of Taupiri, a New Zealander, as passenger, collided in midair ah Cranwell with a Hart day bomber, piloted by Flying-officer Dennis John Douthwaite, with Flight-cadet John Askell Rutherford as passenger. All were killed. The planes were engaged in flying training. Parachutes were not used. This is the first quadruple accident since February, 1933, but the sixth fatal Air Force catastrophe in 1934, involving eleven deaths. SON OF COLONEL PLUGGE. [Pan Ukitbd Press Associatiok.J AUCKLAND, May 2. Flight-lieutenant Plugge, the young New Zealander killed in England, wai a son of Colonel A. Plugge, of Gallipoli fame. _____
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Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 9
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130MIDAIR COLLISION Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 9
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