BOMBING PLANE CRASHES
ROYAL, AIR FORCE TRAGEDY HEAVY DEATH ROLL Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, July 23. ' The five occupants were killed when a, three-engined Air Force bomber crashed in flames in Derbyshire Hills. Villagers said they saw three Verey lights fired just before the crash, and that the engine seemed to be misfiring. SIX DEATHS REPORTED LONDON, July 23. The Air Ministry announces that there were six deaths in the Derbyshire crash, . YEAR'S WORST ACCIDENT MACHINE BLAZES FURIOUSLY. LONDON, July 23. The crash occurred near the summit of th« 2,000 ft high Kinder Scout Mountain. The machine blazed furiously for 30 minutes. Th© victims hav© not yet been identified, and the fact that it was an Air Force machine was only established by ths discovery of the note book near the seen©. It' was the worst Air Force crash this year. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 15
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142BOMBING PLANE CRASHES Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 15
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