AIR FORCE ACCIDENTS.
THREE DEATHS REPORTED. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Nov. 7. The bodies of Pilot Officer Charles Myers and Air Craftsman •Oiadwick, u lio have been missing usance yesterday morning, were discovered under the wreckage of a plane almost buried in a bo o’ on a desolate ridge in the Yorkshire moors. Myers*, who was aged 20, had completed his flying education a mouth ago and l had! only fourteen hours’ actual flying experience. He set out from Latterick aerodrome to carry out photographic training and ishould have been absent about an hour at the most. When he failed) to return aeroplanes searched and scoured the moors, continuing witii ‘torches .and soaroh.lights all night. .. _ A third death in the Air Force occurred at the flying school m Lmconshire, when Pilot Officer Richard Coupe crashed in a field. Another aeroplane when landing to render assistance struck a hedge and was overturned. hut the two occupants were not hurt.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1928, Page 8
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