HIT-AND-FLY
.\ K\V YORK. Sept, 9. The first, hit-and-lly, fatal accident in aviation records occurred off the beach to-day, when a ■seaplane cut a motor boat in two, killing one fisherman and seriously injuring a second, and then aped away. The seaplane is the property of Coastal Airways Co., one of whose planes on Saturday, when making a forced landing, crashed into a crowd of bathers, killing two children and injuring a dozen bathers'.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 12
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