AIRMAN KILLED
NIGHT FLYING CRASH AEROPLANE WRECKED [BY TELEGHAPH —PBESB ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday It is officially announced that, while engaged in night flying training at Woodbourne last night, an aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force crashed, and the sole occupant, Lead-ing-Aircraftman Arthur Ormond Hathaway, was killed. The cause of the accident is obscure. A court of inquiry will be held. Aircraftman Hathaway was born in Masterton in 1913. His father is Mr. A. D. Hathaway, of Martinborough. The crash occurred about 7.20, soon after Aircraftman Hathaway had taken off on exercises involving a wide circuit of the aerodrome. The machine was seen to be losing height from about 800 ft., and the crash took place on a low foothill about three miles south-west of the aerodrome, just as the pilot was turning preparatory to coming in to land. 'I he machine was wrecked, but did not catch fire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24049, 21 August 1941, Page 8
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