AVIATION TRAGEDIES.
LADY CLAYTON KILLED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 15. Lday Clayton,, who was an accomplished amateur pilot, died from injuries received at the Brooklands Aerodrome. She had started the engine of her ’plane and was climbing into the cockpit when the machine moved forward. It was rapidly gathering speed when she fell and was carried unconscious to the hospital, where she died. The machine turned turtle.
Lady Clayton was 25 years old, and the widow of Sir Robert Clayton, who died last year from an illness contracted during an air and motor journey across the Libyan Desert.
BOMBER CRASHES. R.A.F. PILOT’S DEATH. LONDON, Sept. 16. The Brooklands aerodrome yesterday was the scene of another disaster. A huge R.A.F. bomber with five passengers was endeavouring to land when it failed to slow down and taxied into a ditch. The ’plane broke its back, the pilot was killed and two were injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 7
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