BOMBER CRASHES.
FOUR MEN KILLED. ROYAL AIR FORCE. LONDON, Dec. 14. Four men . were killed when an Air Force bomber crashed in flames at Stopham Bridge, Sussex. The bodies were so charred that identification was impossible. Tlie ’plane was a Handley Page Heyford twin-engined bomber. It urasnea in a sloping field. Villagers heard a terrific explosion and ran out to find the machine a blazing mass. Ihe propeller was picked up 150 yards iron, the scene. . The heat was so intense that the villagers could only look oil until the flames had died down. The machine itself was identified only by a fragment of the parachute. . Two passengers and the wireless operator were slightly injured when a British Airways machine from Paris, when landing at Croydon in a snowstorm, crashed into the hangar.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1937, Page 9
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