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AVIATOR KILLED PASSENGER LANDS SAFELY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 3. An. amazing mishap, occurred at Romford. A 23-year-old aviator, a chemist named Douglas Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into a spin. He failed to flatten out and continued upside down, Gee being hurled to death on a railway line. Oscroft, who was suspended in the air by a seat strap, managed to get his legs around the control stick, and the machine was miraculously righted. Oscroft Janded safely.
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Evening Star, Issue 22639, 4 May 1937, Page 9
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87EMPTIED FROM PLANE Evening Star, Issue 22639, 4 May 1937, Page 9
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