SIX AIRMEN KILLED
LEAPS FROM CRASHING AEROPLANE. Major Gearhart, Captain Doyle, and four privates of the American army, were killed in an aeroplane collision at Langley Field, U.S.A. Major Gearhart took off in a Fokker and caught the tail of a Martin bomber which was already in the" air. Both machines were precipitated to the ground. Two of the privates jumped and were killed on the spot, and the other occupbCits of both, weire> burnt to death in the wreckage, which caught fire.—Reuter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 12
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83SIX AIRMEN KILLED New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 12
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