’PLANE ON FIRE.
OBSERVER KILLED. Received August 5, 10.0 a.m. PRAGUE, Aug. 4. A heavy bombing ’plane paugiNl fire at an altitude of 6000 feet. The pilot used his parachute with success, but the observer, becoming over-excited, opened his parachute too early and was killed. The machine fell on the roof of a distillery which, tvith an adjoining shop, caught fire.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 209, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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61’PLANE ON FIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 209, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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