’PLANES COLLIDE.
PILOTS’ REAIARKABLE ESCAPE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 14. Two Royal Air Force pilots, Flying Officer Percy arid Flying Officer Brake, had a remarkable escape when their machines, both travelling at high speed, came into collision at an altitude of 3000 feet. Both men made safe descents by parachutes and landed in a ploughed. field. Flying Officer Percy escaped apparently unscratched, but Flying Officer Brake sustained a broken arm and severe cuts to the face.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 118, 15 April 1930, Page 7
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77’PLANES COLLIDE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 118, 15 April 1930, Page 7
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