AIR TRAGEDIES
FIVE FINNS KILLED. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) HELSINGFORS, July 30. Two military planes collided nt a thousand feet, and fell in flames. Five men wer 0 kiJed, two being saved by parachutes. BRITISH GLIDING CHAMPION KILLED. LONDON, July 30. In the presence of his wife, parents, and a large assembly, George Collins, the British gliding champion, was killed in Huntingdonshire. According to eye-witnesses, he loped twice, a wing dropped off and the glider crashed. Collins was twenty-seven years of age. Last year, he flew ninoty-five miles in 265 minutes.
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Grey River Argus, 1 August 1935, Page 2
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92AIR TRAGEDIES Grey River Argus, 1 August 1935, Page 2
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