BOMBERS CRASH
ROYAL AIR FORCE MACHINES SEVERAL LIVES LOST BOY LANDS BY PARACHUTE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, July 21. When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propeller of another machine near Wittering Royal Air Force station, Sergeant-pilot J. A. Bullard pushed his schoolboy passenger into space and shouted: “ Don’t get scared, count five and pull the ripcord.” The boy’s parachute opened and floated him safely to the ground. Bullard then tried to use his own parachute but was unable to climb out of the wildly spinning plane until too near the ground. Bullard was killed instantly.
Two Royal Air Force planes collided in mid-air near Deal and three men were killed.
A Royal Air Force bomber crashed near Driffield and three were killed. Another bomber with a crew of two plunged into the sea eight miles south of Bridlington. The crew, it is feared, were killed. Eyewitnesses said the plane, after dropping a bomb, hit the water and vanished in a cloud of smoke.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23868, 24 July 1939, Page 11
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