’PLANE CRASHES
PILOT AND STUDENT KILLED (United Frees Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, Ist June. A light aeroplane crashed from a height of 500 feet at Tamworth. The pilot, Frank Mitchell (35), and Harry West, a flying student, were killed instantly. Mitchell was one of the best known aviators in Sydney. He was chief mechanic of the Aero Club. He was conducting a flying school for students at Tamworth and had completed a stunt when sightseers were horror-struck to see the propellor become detached and whizz through space. It landed on a housetop. The machine wont into a tail spin, then nose-dived into the main street, where it was smashed to pieces. The occupants were dreadfully injured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 June 1930, Page 5
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