SEAPLANE GOES UNDER
FOUR OCCUPANTS KILLED. STRUCK BY PROPELLER. (Sydney “Sun” Cabled NEW YORK, December 25. Four lives were lofct in a remarkable aeroplane accident at Norfolk, Virginia. A naval ambulance seaplane waß bringing to hospital a man named Williams, a coastguard employee, who was suffering from pneumonia. As the ’plane stniqk the water it went under, and Williams was drowned then. As two naval officers named Keyser and Mainwaring, and a hospital attendant named Gavin commenced to swim, the propellers of the ’plane were still whirlinig, and caught them, and all were killed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12022, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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