’PLANES COLLIDE
R.A.F. OFFICERS KILLED NEW ZEALANDER A VICTIM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2nd Mav, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Ist May. A Bulldog fighter, piloted by FlightLeut. Joseph Seymour Tanner, with Flight-Cadet John Aicken Plugge, of Taupiri, New Zealand, as a passenger, collided in mid-air at Cramwell with a Hart day-bomber piloted by FlyingOfficer Dennis John D’Quthwaite, with Flight-Cadet John Askell Rutherford as a passenger. All were killed. The ’planes were engaged in flying training. Parachutes were not used. This is the first quadruple accident since February, 1953, but the sixth fatal Air Force catastrophe in 1934, involving eleven deaths. SON OF COLONEL A. PLUGGE (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. Flight-Cadet Plugge, the young New Zealander killed in England, was a son of Colonel A. Plugge, of Gallipoli fame.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1934, Page 5
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131’PLANES COLLIDE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1934, Page 5
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