PLANES COLLIDE
FCTUR AIRMEN KILLED
(United. Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11-55 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. A bulldog fighter piloted by FlightLieutenant Joseph Seymour Tanner, with Flight-Cadet John Aicken Plugge, of Taupiri, New Zealand, as passenger, collided in mid-air at Crampell with a Hart-Day bomber, piloted by FlyingOfficer Dennis John Douthw-aite, with .Flight-Cadet John Askell Rutherford ,as a passenger. AH were killed. The planes were engaged in flying training, and parachutes were not used. This is the fiist quadruple accident since February, 1933, but the sixth fatal iair f° rCc catastrophe in 1934, involving eleven deaths.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1934, Page 6
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