EXPLOSION IN MID-AIR.
FATALITY IN SWEDEN 1
’PLANE PILOT DROWNED,
Received July 24, 9.40 a.m. STOCKHOLM, July 23. After an explosion in mid-air, a military ’plane crashed in pieces in Lake Vottern and the pilot was drowned; the observer was rescued. The machine was engaged in machine-gun exercises. Jt is believed that the propeller was shot away, causing the motor to race and explode.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9
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