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CRANWELL AIR DISASTER HUGE HOLES IN GROUND. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. . LONDON, May 2. Occupants of a lonely farmhouse and a few labourers saw one machine flying south and another west. They heard a crash like a thunderclap. All the victims were found* dead in the aeroplanes. They had no time to utilise their parachutes. The labourers had to dodge falling fragments. The planes made huge holes in the ground, the engines taking four hours to extricate. [A Bulldog fighter; piloted by Flightlieutenant Joseph Seymour Tanner, with Flight-cadet John Aicken Plugge, of Taupiri a New Zealander, as passenger, collided in, midair at Cranwell with a Hart day bomber, piloted by Flying-officer Dennis John Douthwaite, with Flight-cadet John Askrell Rutherford as passenger. All were killed.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 9
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