AERIAL DISASTER
MACHINE CATCHES FIRE. FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 22. A big Handley-Page machine left the aerodrome at Andover with, seven passengers, practising night flying. It stopped in midair owing to engine trouble, and crashed to the ground, colliding -with a shed. The machine overturned and took fire. Fivo people were killed, the victims being pinned under the machine and roasted to death. . The survivors -were badly burned.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17616, 5 May 1919, Page 5
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75AERIAL DISASTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 17616, 5 May 1919, Page 5
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