TWO PLANE CRASHES
EIGHTEEN PERSONS KILLED LONDON, Feb. 13. Eighteen persons were killed in two plane crashes to-day. A Sunderland of Coastal Command, after signalling that its starboard engine was unserviceable, crashed in flames in the early morning on the lee foreshore on the Solent. Ten members of the crew were killed. The Sunderland was outward bound for Karachi. The crash occurred shortly after leaving Calshot. A Dakota of the Canadian Squadron Transport Command arriving from Germany, crashed at Chelsham, near Croydon. The Dakota carried 20 passengers and a crew of four. First reports say eight persons were killed and 12 injured. The death roll in R.A.F. crashes in Britain so far in 1946 totals approximately 80, including the Dakota and Sunderland crashes, says the Daily Mail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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