Husband and Wife Killed in Plane Crash
WELL-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN PASTORALISTS . PLYING HOME IN THEIR OWN MACHINE (By Telegraph-Press Assh.--Copyright) Received Sunday, 3 p.m. MELBOURNE, May 26. a Mr G. P. Fairbairn, of the welltoOTO Victorian pastoralist family, and his wife were killed today when their aeroplane crashed after taking off from Essendon aerodrome for a flight to their .home. ? Immediately after taking off "the motor cut out and the machine went into a spin and crashed on to the road, narrowly missing a motor-truck. Mr Fairhairn learned to fly in 2lngland in 1930 and in the following year made a leisurely flight to. Australia. Mrs Fairhairn was a,t the controls when the accident occurred.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1935, Page 7
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