AMAZING AIR FATALITY
PILOT HURLED TO DEATH PASSENGER LANDS SAFELY (Received May 3, .11.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 8 An amazing mishap occurred to-day at Romford, Essex, when a 23-year-old flier and chemist, Dougles Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into a spin, and failed to flatten out. The machine continued upside down and Gee was hurled to his death on a railway line. Qsereft was suspended in the air from his seat by his safety strap, but managed to get his legs round the control stiek. The aeroplane miraculously righted itself and Oscroft made a safe landing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22719, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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