PLANE CRASH
AIRCRAFTMAN KILLED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug; 20. It is officially announced that while engaged in night flying training at Woodboumc last night, an aircraft of the R.N.Z.A.E. crashed, and the sole occupant, Leading Aircraftman Arthur Ormond Hathaway, was killed. The cause of the accident is obscure, and a Court of Inquiry will bo held. Hathaway was born at Mastorton in 1913. His father is Mr A. D. Hathaway, of Martinborough. A late message states that the crash occurred about 7.20, soon after Hathaway had taken off on exercises involving a wide circuit of the aerodrome. Th machine was seen losing height from about 800 ft, and the crash took place on a low foothill about three miles south-west of the aerodrome, just as the pilot was turning preparatory to coming in to land. The machine was totally wrecked, but did not catch fire.
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Evening Star, Issue 23968, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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144PLANE CRASH Evening Star, Issue 23968, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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