BURST INTO FLAMES
PILOT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. (Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, August 13. An Air Force aeroplane, in which Pilot-Instructor W. Rae, and Cadet Thomas Laws, aged 21, were practising forced landings, struck a high tension wire at Point Cook. The machine crashed and burst into flames. Cadet Laws was killed. Pilot-Instruc-tor Rae was rescued from the flames by the school staff. He escaped with facial injuries.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1935, Page 7
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