PILOT TRAINEE’S DEATH.
VERDICT AT INQUEST. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Sept. 6. A verdict that death was caused by multiple injuries, including severe head (injuries, was returned by the Coroner (Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M.) at the inquest yesterday into the death of Raymond Edward George Mason, aged 22, formerly of Feilding, a pilot trainee at the Woodbourne Flying School, who was killed on August 21 when the Vickers Vincent bomber he was piloting crashed into a farm shed at Dillon’s Point, a, few miles from Blenheim. Captain Moore, medical officer attached to the Woodbourne Aerodrome, gave evidence that death was instantaneous and was the result of severe head injuries caused by the force of the crash.
Mrs Mary Isobel Young, at the rear of whose house the plane crashed, said the, plane circled the property and then appeared to dive on the shed. It did not recover from the dive and burst into flames when it struck the shed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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