AIR FORCE FATALITY.
INTREPID OFFICER'S DEATH. ' FIGHTING PLANE CRASHES. LONDON, Aug. 26. P^Jot-Officer Harold Kelly was flying a Woodcock Fighter at a height of 400 ft. at Upavon, Wiltshire, when the machine tilted, spun around three times, and crashed with terrific force. Three journalists who were motoring through Upavon rushed to his assistance and extricated the body of the officer with wirecutters and axes. A doctor administered strychnine, but Kelly died soon after he reathed the hospital. Kelly broke a leg and both arms while flying in 1925, but he intrepidly continued his exercises in order to pass the officers' examination. This is the fifth death that has occurred at the Upavon aerodrome. In the past three weeks there have been two motor-car and three flying accidents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 11
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