AEROPLANE CRASH
SQUADRON-LEADER’S DEATH FINDING AT INQUEST As coroner, Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., has delivered his finding at the inquest on the body of Squadronleader John Hugh Kitson, who died on Friday last from injuries received when an Airspeed-Oxford bomber which he was piloting crashed near the Royal New Zealand Air Force Training Station at Taieri. Mr Bartholomew’s verdict was that death was' due to, heart failure, following extensive burns and injuries caused by , the ,crashing of an aeroplane which the deceased was piloting.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24336, 28 June 1940, Page 10
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