AIRCRAFTMAN KILLED
STRUCK BY A PROPELLER (Per United Press Association) , WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. It was announced officially in Wellington to-night that Aircraftman Arthur Lawrence Jessop. aged 22, was killed when he was struck by the propropeller of a plane at the Ohakea Air Force Station at 6.4 p.m. to-day A Palmerston North message states that the only information to hand is that Jessop walked into the orbit of the moving propeller of a stationary aeroplane to be terribly mutilated by. the revolving blades. His father is Mr A. L. Jessop. of Rongotea.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24401, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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