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SEQUEL TO FLYING DISASTER PLANE CRASHED INTO PLATOON OF TROOPS. (7.P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copyright-) LONDON, April 3. Tlie Times Karachi correspondent Bays that the court-martial of Flying Officer H. C. Sircar, who was piloting a machine which crashed into a platoon of troops on January S. resulted in his being dismissed from the service. Fifteen men of the Balicdi Regiment were killed and 11 injured when an aeroplane of tlie Indian Air Force crashed into a platoon of troops while the men were on the march between Karachi and the Hubb River. Air - craft were practising macliine-gun attacks on" troops on the march, to which the troops were replying by imitation rifle fire, and when pne aeroplane failed to recover from a dive it crashed into the troops.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12521, 5 April 1935, Page 4
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