BURNED TO DEATH.
QUEENSLAND AIRMAN. FATALITY AT A SHOW. (Received April 9. 12.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, April 8. Captain Edward Shaw, a leading Queensland airman, was burned to death when his aeroplane capsized at the Pittsworth Show, near Toowoomba, to-day. Captain Shaw was giving pleasure flights and also instructing a pupil. In alighting his machine struck a fence, overturned and caught fire. The pupil escaped injury.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 11
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