DUAL AIR TRAGEDY
FATE OF WOMEN FLYERS. TWO BURNED TO DEATH. .United Uresa Association —By Electric Te leg rapt) < Xipyrigm LONDON, June 19. Two airwomen were burned to death near the Hatfield De Havilnnd Hying school aerodrome to-day. Their machine crashed and immediately took lire, the bodies of both women being incinerated. One was Miss O’Brien, daughter of Sir Timothy O’Brien, one of the best known airwomen in Britain. She lost a leg in an air smash in 1928. Nevertheless she again qualified as a pilot.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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86DUAL AIR TRAGEDY Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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