R.A.F. Flying-Boat Crashes In Flames; Six Killed
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 29. Bursting into fjames, a giant Royal Air Force flying-boat, with a crew of five, which was taking part )in combined naval and aerial exercises, crashed into the sea near Brest. A journalist, Mr A. E. Barlow, observing the manoeuvre “for the aeroplane,” was also on board. After an explosion, the machine sank in two minutes. The Consett, near which the machine fell, launched boats and picked up the body of Mr Barlow, but the bodies of the .crew have not been recovered.
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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1938, Page 5
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