SIX KILLED IN CRASH.
AIR FORCE TRAGEDY. LONDON, July 23. Six people were killed when a threeengined .Air Force bomber crashed in flames in Derbyshire hills. ATllagers said they saw three Verey lights fired just before the crash, and that the engines seemed to be misfiring.
The crash occurred near the summit, which is 2000 ft. high, of the Kinder Scout Mountain. The machine blazed furiously for 30 minutes. The fact that it was an Air Force machine was only established by the discovery of a notebook near the scene. It is the uoist Air Force crash this year.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9
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99SIX KILLED IN CRASH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9
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