Nine Killed in R.A.F. Crashes
SCHOOLBOY PASSENGER LANDS BY PARACHUTE LONDON .July 21. When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propeller of another machine near Wittering Royal Air Force Station, Sergeant-Pilot J. A. Bullard pushed a schoolboy passenger into space and shouted: “Don’t get scared. Count five and then pull the ripcord.” The boy’s parachute opened and floated him safely to the ground. Sergeant-Pilot Bullard then tried to use his own parachute, but was unable to climb out of the wildly-spinning plane until it was too near the ground He was killed instantly. Two Royal Air Force planes collided in mid-air- near Deal. Three men were killed. A Royal Air Force bomber crashed near Driffield. Three men were killed. Another bomber, with a crew of two, plunged into the sea eight miles south of Bridlington. It is feared that tho crew were killed. Eye-witnesses sair| that the plane, after dropping a bomb, hit the water and vanished in a clout} of smoke. . 1
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 172, 24 July 1939, Page 7
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