ESCAPE OF PILOT
AUSTRALIAN PLANE CRASH IN MOUNTAINS (Reed. Oct. 2, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. .1 A Royal Australian Air Force training plane crashed in the Blue Mountains to-day during a thick mist Pilot-Ofiicer Lionel Webber, aged 23,, who was flying the machine, baled out. He was unhurt. He reached a farmhouse and told his story. Lost >n the mist, he became detached from two other planes. He searched in vain for a place to land. The machine went into a spin and caught fire and was destroyed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20367, 2 October 1940, Page 5
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