AMAZING MISHAP
AEROPLANE FAILS TO FLATTEN OUT MIRACULOUSLY RIGHTED BY PASSENGER PILOT HURLED TO DEATH [United Press Association— By Electric j olograph-copyright] LONDON. 3rd May. An amazing mishap occurred at Romford when a 23-year-old aviator, Douglas Gee, a chemist, warned his passenger. Claude Oscroli, that he was going into a spin. He failed to flatten out and I continued upside down. Gee was hurled to death on a railway line, but Oscroft, suspended in the air by his seat strap, managed to get his legs around the control stick and the machine miraculously righted. Oscrol't made a sale landing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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