BOMBING DEMONSTRATION
PREMATURE EXPLOSION PILOT KILLED AT ORANGE PAGEANT [U.P.A.— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! SYDNEY. 30th January. During an aerial pageant at Orange to-day, a fatal crash occurred. Ernest J. Buck, chief instructor to the Newcastle Aero Club, was demonstrating the bombing of a fort. He had dropped two, and was apparently about to drop a thir dbomb, which accidentally or prematurely exploded, blowing one ot his arms off. The machine immediately got out of control, rose suddenly, and then fell like a rocket outside the aerodrome. Buck was killed instantly. It is now stated that after Buck's arm was blown off he controlled the machine sufficiently long enough to avoid crashing into .the crowd. Buck pulled the plane out of a dive 400 feet above the onlookers, climbed to 800 feet and slipped from there into a spin which crashed the plane into the ground fifty yards in front of the screaming crowd.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 5
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