FLYING TRAGEDY
TWO KESEKYE OFFICERS WING FALLS OFF MACHINE ENGLISH WEDDING INCIDENT (Received November 4, 6.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 3 A double flying fatality occurred at Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. With the intention of flying over a wedding party in order to drop confetti Pilot-Officers A. Grant-Dalton and Philip Rook, belonging to the Air Force Reserve, hired an aeroplane. When near the church they stunted and one wing dropped off the machine, which dropped like a stone into a field and killed a calf.
The petrol caught fire and one occupant of the aeroplane was fatally injured and the other was burnt to death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21949, 5 November 1934, Page 9
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102FLYING TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21949, 5 November 1934, Page 9
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