CRASH IN ENGLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 7

CRASH IN ENGLAND

NEW ZEALANDER KILLED FLYING-OFFICER JOBSON [FROM OUR OWN LONDON, Aug. 1 A New Zealand airman, FlyingOfficer D. I. Jobson, of Hawera, was killed with two non-commissioned officers and an aircraftsman when a Hampden bomber, iri which they were making a cross-country flight with other machines from Waddington, Lincolnshire, to Tangmere, Sussex, crashed on the boundary of the villages of Irnham and Corby, betweeu Bourne and Grantham, Lincolnshire. Visibility was very poor owing to fog, and the pilot, when the machine was seen by Mr. JEL Bish, a Corby farmer, seemed to havo lost his bearings. Suddenly the aeroplane dived steeply, with the engine full out, into a field. The engine was buried in a six-foot crater, and an explosion shook windows in Corby, two miles away. The explosion was* followed by fire. Wreckago of tho machine and the bodies of tho crew were strewn over three fields and part of tho radiator tank had fallen shattered over half a mile away. Tho wreckage burned until a heavy rainstorm extinguished tho flames. Flying-Officer Jobson joined the Royal Air Forco in February, 1936, oil short-service commission. After'attending a flying training school he was posted to tho 44 (B) Squadron at Waddington, near Lincoln.